{"id":24172,"date":"2025-05-14T22:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/?p=24172"},"modified":"2025-05-14T22:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:26:22","slug":"fritz-jean-flag-day-2025-big-spender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/fritz-jean-flag-day-2025-big-spender\/","title":{"rendered":"300 Million Gourdes for the Flag Day Celebration: Fritz Alphonse Jean in \u201cBig Spender\u201d Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Between 300 and 400 million gourdes\u2014that\u2019s the staggering amount allocated for the festivities marking the 222nd celebration of Haiti\u2019s Flag Day in Cap-Ha\u00eftien on May 18, 2025. The chosen theme: \u201cOne flag, one people, one nation.\u201d With such spending, Fritz Alphonse Jean and his circle are positioning themselves as true squanderers of public funds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, back in 2023, the former governor of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti had denounced the 93 million gourdes allocated by Ariel Henry\u2019s government for the 220th anniversary of the flag\u2019s creation. Now in power, Fritz Jean and his fellow members of the Transitional Presidential Council have more than tripled that amount. Between 300 and 400 million gourdes will be \u201cwasted\u201d while the Haitian people continue to suffer through humanitarian, food, and security crises.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Transitional Presidential Council and the government of Alix Didier Fils-Aim\u00e9 have proven to be no better than the administration of the neurosurgeon, one of the worst the country has ever known. Informed observers continue to call for popular mobilization against this careless regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 300 and 400 million gourdes\u2014that\u2019s the staggering amount allocated for the festivities marking the 222nd celebration of Haiti\u2019s Flag Day in Cap-Ha\u00eftien on May 18, 2025. The chosen theme: \u201cOne flag, one people, one nation.\u201d With such spending, Fritz Alphonse Jean and his circle are positioning themselves as true squanderers of public funds. Ironically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":24173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2119,2125],"tags":[2498,2292],"class_list":{"0":"post-24172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-flag-day","10":"tag-fritz-alphonse-jean-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24172","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24176,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24172\/revisions\/24176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdo24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}