{"id":24148,"date":"2025-05-13T20:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/?p=24148"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:37:08","slug":"flag-day-2025-cap-haitien-fritz-jean-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/flag-day-2025-cap-haitien-fritz-jean-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicolor Celebration in Cap-Ha\u00eftien: Fritz Jean Haunted by His Demagogic Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the 222nd celebration of Haiti\u2019s Flag Day, the government has allocated a budget ranging from 300 to 400 million gourdes. This year\u2019s theme is: \u201cOne Flag, One People, One Nation.\u201d The major national event will be held in the northern city of Cap-Ha\u00eftien. Why? Because public funds have been squandered, and no real efforts have been made to restore security in the Western Department, now overrun by armed gangs. As a result, Arcahaie\u2014the historical birthplace of the bicolor flag\u2014will be deprived of the festivities. Some observers see this as a disgrace for the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), especially for its coordinator, Fritz Alphonse Jean.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, back in 2023, the former governor of Haiti\u2019s Central Bank harshly criticized Ariel Henry\u2019s government for celebrating the 220th anniversary of the flag\u2019s creation in the country\u2019s second-largest city. \u201cIn Cap-Ha\u00eftien, the de facto government raised the flag of division,\u201d declared Fritz A. Jean at the time, condemning Ariel Henry\u2019s administration for its proven incompetence and failure.<\/p>\n<p>Now, confronted by his own record of political demagoguery, Mr. Jean and his allies, along with Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aim\u00e9\u2019s administration, will organize the 222nd Flag Day celebration\u2026 once again in Cap-Ha\u00eftien. As a pretext, the Minister of Youth, Sports, and Civic Action boldly declared this a strategic choice to decentralize official events from Port-au-Prince. \u201cThe West is not the only region that exists. Haiti is made up of ten departments. It\u2019s time our major celebrations reflect that territorial reality,\u201d she shamelessly affirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 222nd celebration of Haiti\u2019s Flag Day, the government has allocated a budget ranging from 300 to 400 million gourdes. This year\u2019s theme is: \u201cOne Flag, One People, One Nation.\u201d The major national event will be held in the northern city of Cap-Ha\u00eftien. Why? Because public funds have been squandered, and no real efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":24143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2119,2125],"tags":[2292],"class_list":{"0":"post-24148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-fritz-alphonse-jean-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24149,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24148\/revisions\/24149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}