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A Montreal-based mining company has announced plans to explore the mountains of northeastern Haiti for gold and copper.

Majescor Resources Inc. will explore the site in a partnership with Simact Mining Holding Inc., a Long Island, New York-based consortium of Haitian American investors.Majescor President Marc-Andre Bernier said Monday the company is encouraged by explorations that Eurasian Minerals Inc. is conducting at a nearby site.

Gold and copper were found in the Caribbean nation decades ago, but Haiti's instability and lack of infrastructure have discouraged investment.A Barrick Gold Corp. ( ABX - news - people ) site about 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast in the Dominican Republic is estimated to contain 20.4 million ounces of gold.

just letting everyone know

We want everyone to have a good experience. Unfortunately, the weather for this weekend doesn't look like it's going to cooperate," said Todd of the "Todd and Erin Morning Show.We realize this is Memorial Weekend.  We're optimistically thinking that with an additional month of promotion, there will be even more people to join us! 

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It's the Largest Annual Yard Sale Event in Utah!! FREE to the public!! Todd's Yard Sale returns to the E-Center on Saturday, April 25th! The sale is open to the public from 8:30-1:30. Todd's Yard Sale is brought to you in part by Macey's, Your Families Favorite Grocery Store.

Haiti will have to wait awhile

Looks like it will be awhile before Haiti knows the results on the election. Even with the low turn out it will take at least eight days before we know the results Ballots are being counted at polling places and tabulated at a warehouse computer center guarded by armed U.N. peacekeepers in an industrial park in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Turnout appeared to be extremely low in the capital, where voter apathy and fear of election-day violence were more common than political interest. President Rene Preval declined to comment on the turnout Sunday until official results are calculated.

U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson, who toured the tabulation center Monday, remarked that "Historically, off-year elections in the United States as well as in other countries tend not to be as well-attended as presidential elections. We'll have to see."

The international community gave at least $12.5 million, including $3.9 million from the United States, to help carry out the election.

Supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide — whose still-popular Fanmi Lavalas party was prohibited from running by electoral officials — had also encouraged citizens to stay away from the polls.

The party took credit for the apparently low turnout Sunday.

Voting for a 12th seat from the rural Central Department was halted by Haiti's provisional electoral council after demonstrators ransacked polling places and a poll supervisor was shot in the plateau town of Mirebalais. That race will be rescheduled.

On Monday, Haitian workers guarded by Chinese police in blue U.N. berets examined, scanned and tabulated the results reported by polling places across the country. The original ballots are archived elsewhere.

Since the Port-au-Prince facility is the only place where results are being tabulated, voters will have to wait for ballots to make hours-long journeys over Haiti's washed-out, dilapidated mountain roads and to be brought in by boat from surrounding minor islands.

The U.N. peacekeeping mission issued a statement Monday expressing its hope that the Haitian people and political parties will "await calmly the publication of results ... and that any dispute will be pursued through legal channels."

   

     

Low Turnout

PORT AU PRINCE (AFP) — Haiti's Senate elections were marred by sporadic violence, forcing authorities to cancel polling in parts of the country, as turnout remained low across the impoverised Caribbean nation.
Election council president Frantz-Gerard Verret announced the cancellations after hundreds of demonstrators protested at ballot stations as voting got underway.
Haitian President Rene Preval, who voted after returning from the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, said he would not comment on the election cancellations until polling results were in.
More than 4.5 million Haitians were eligible to appoint 12 senators out of 78 candidates, although voter apathy prompted a low turnout following years of broken political promises.
Haiti, hit hard in recent months by a series of hurricanes and natural disasters, continues to battle chronic poverty and corruption.
Despite advances in some areas, Preval said last week that "stability is still fragile and needs reinforcement," citing drug trafficking, which he called "an enemy of the rule of law, an enemy against the functioning of democratic institutions."
On a whirlwind visit to Haiti, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she was "encouraged" by an international donors conference in Washington that pledged some 324 million dollars to help the country.
She said the United States will give Haiti 57 million dollars in extra aid this year as part of the aid package announced at Tuesday's conference led by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Haitian government.
"I believe we still have work to do," Clinton said. "Haiti deserves our help."

Yay, some help for Haiti!!!

Donors pledge $324m in Haiti aid Storms caused some $1bn in damage to Haiti in 2008 International donors have agreed an aid package of $324m (£218m) for Haiti, to help the country recover from hurricanes and food shortages. The pledge comes after a meeting of more than 20 countries and financial institutions in Washington. The Caribbean island is the poorest country in the Americas, with more than 70% unemployment. Haitian Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis had warned that a failure to take action would be "catastrophic". Haiti was hit by a series of hurricanes and tropical storms in 2008 that left some 800 people dead and caused nearly $1bn of damage. Ms Pierre-Louis told the conference that her country was "treading on very fragile ground" and urged them to back a development plan to create some 150,000 jobs and boost the economy. She appealed for $900m over two years for education, health and other services in the country. 'On a brink' The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which organised the conference with the Haitian government, said $41m of the total pledged would go towards filling a $125m shortfall in Haiti's budget. The World Bank agreed to provide $20m in aid, while the US said it would offer a further $57m. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Haiti's growth had been undermined by "the combined winds of hurricanes and the global economic recession" and was "in danger of stalling". "This nation is on a brink of either moving forward with the help of the collective community or falling further back." In addition to the aid pledged, Haiti is also expected to receive about $1bn in debt relief by mid-2009. Ms Pierre-Louis said the money would help Haiti in its "quest for lasting development and democracy". Bookmark with: