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Haiti: President's Tax on Diaspora is Not Funding Free Education
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- Tuesday, 03 January 2012 08:41
Dimitri Nau speaks to disgruntled directors of private institutions
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - In a radio interview Thursday, the National Palace education adviser admitted that none of the money collected through a tax on international calls and money transfers is being used towards education in Haiti.
President Michel Martelly's National Fund for Education (FNE) was launched in May 2011 with the aims of collecting $8.5 million [US] per month by excising international phone calls at 5 cents per minute and attaching a fee to international money transfers at $1.50 per transfer.
Since the launch of the FNE, the estimated $60 million [US] expected to be in
the government's account for education have not been found.
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In a meeting with the Senate Finance Committee in December, the Governor of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti said that $4.8 million [US] were all the dollars in the FNE and that no withdrawals had been made from the fund and that this only accounted for money collected through the $1.50[US] fee on transfers.
The government of Haiti has spent an unprecedented amount of money on a campaign of misinformation. Radio and television commercials,
billboards and even in the speeches of President Martelly,
have claimed
that nearly a million children are attending school for free.
The National Palace Adviser on Education, Dimitri Nau, was asked on Magik 9 Radio, owned by Le Nouvelliste < = =text/> /* */ , to declare the facts.
Nau said that 903,000 students are attending school for free but had to note that about 490,000 of these students had already been attending free schools through the government's national school system which was long established before the FNE.
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