Blackout - Haiti Observer Blog

Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has okayed a new payment program for electricity usage in Haiti. It is a pay-as-you-go plan Electricite d' Haiti (EdH) will implement under the go-ahead from newly- installed EdH Director, Jean Morose.

As it stands now, most residents of Haiti do not pay for electricity. They cheat the system by getting on the power grid hooked up to local businesses. Businesses get reduced service as a result, and only make partial payments. With this new system, Electricite d'Haiti (EdH) customers will purchase a pre-paid card, inputting with what frequency they want to pay, and how much they want to pay before they receive electricity service.

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Can you believe this? Someone actually cut the electric wire with a machete to cause the blackout during the inauguration of Michel Martelly.

According to Edmond Mulet, preliminary investigation for the power outage or the blackout that occurred on Saturday, during the inauguration of Michel Martelly was a premeditated act and was done as an act of sabotage.

Someone actually thinks the best thing to do is to destabilize the event by causing a blackout.

Wow....

Edmond Mulet stated that the electric cables that were supplying electricity to the building where the ceremony took place were cut with a machete.

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The historic moment just happened in total Blackout. President Rene Preval just transferred power to Michel Martelly this morning around 9:45am. Everything happened in an orderly fashion

The most important event is a Blackout that happened during the process.

Port-au-Prince in blackout

The two presidents were very amicable during this process. The former President, Rene Preval, wanted to make a speech, but it could not happen due to the unfortunate blackout.

Sa fe Ront.....

The phenomenon of Blackout during the event was more of an event in itself

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