Miami.– A Haitian man accused of piloting a boat used in a deadly smuggling
attempt earlier this month agreed Friday to stay in jail without a
hearing until his trial.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Ann Vitunac ruled Friday that Jimmy Metellus, 33,
would be held without bond after his public defender said Metellus had
waived his right to a detention hearing.
Metellus is charged with trying to smuggle more than 30 migrants into
South Florida on a boat that capsized and sank about 15 miles east of
Boynton Beach. Nine people died. As many as ten others disappeared in the water and are believed to have drowned. There were nine survivors.
According to the arrest affidavit, Metellus made a deal with the men
who organized the trip, his passage would be free if he piloted the
boat. Metellus reportedly told investigators that the plan was to
abandon the boat once it reached Miami.
He said a man named "Shine" and
three others were the actual organizers of the trip. Metellus, who is
Haitian but has U.S. residency, said he left the U.S. in 2007 for
medical treatment in Haiti. He said he wanted to get to South Florida
to look for work because he has nine children to support.
Written by: oupala07 
, 31 May 2009 4:20 PM
From: Canada
He deserves the death penalty. Morons like that should be taken out of commission and have their brain fried as a deterrance for the others.
No mercy!
Written by: antonioj, 31 May 2009 5:34 PM
From: Canada, home safe
Nine children to support je !! should you not think twice before having that many children,
Written by: oupala07 , 31 May 2009 6:11 PM
From: Canada
Nine children to support? It's a classic Haitian lie, because he thinks that everybody knows that we are very prolific breeders. As you stated it Antonioj, the Sob should have thought twice before throwing those desperately poor lads to face an horrible death. Once again, he deserves to have his brain fried. Those kind of scums are not at all a big lost for my country.
Unfortunately, perilous adventures like that won't deter my people to take their chance on the open sea in order to seek a solution to their infra human way of living. And if I must blame someone, it will be that monkey who call himself President and who, in fact, is one of the member of the cartel that is devouring our little and desolated land.
I sincerely think that we must start a shooting guerilla war in our mountain and start dying for our people and our country. However, haitians are too subdued, too tired, too hungry and too brainwashed to even think about fighting for change.
Written by: curlando, 1 Jun 2009 7:15 AM
From: United States, Bronx
Things people do to get to the US and then kill themselves slowly to make a living.
Written by: tdown1, 1 Jun 2009 7:48 AM
From: United States
Curlando so true.
Written by: Grosero, 1 Jun 2009 9:01 AM
From: United States
It's common knowledge that "SHINE" & his thugs runs Little Mud Cay
They have their hand in the drugs that come through the Freedom seekers, they prostitute not only the women, but children too, they rob, beat and steal from everyone on both Cay's
AND IF YOU THINK FOR ONE MINUTE THAT THE BAHAMAN GOVERMENT IS NOT/ WAS NOT INVOLVED..THINK ANGAIN..
They only selectively raid the place,( Little Mud & Big Mud Cay)
If the Haitian or Dominican can produce $$$$$$$$
NO PROBLEM, "MAN"
Theses "F's" give Freedom a Bad Name. It's better to get the Visa to Costa Rica and work your way to Belize..
Shrimpers want $3500 per....
"F" those rotten Bahaman...
From: United States, Reality Check
BUT... if he were Cuban (with a boat full of Cuban immigrants) that actually made it to our shores or even rescued at sea...
THEN this same man would be view as a "HERO, A BEACON OF FREEDOM" who against major odds took to the seas like our forefathers in search of freedom! Likewise, the cuban immigrants would have been given immediate residency status!
Guys, learn to think for yourselves (without media or the Gov doing it for you). If the media reported that a Haitian killed Kennedy back in '63 then you would believe it (because your thinking is co-dependent not independent). Although, I am not Haitian, I do see the inconsistencies in policy despite the fact that there are hardships in Cuba but reality says... they are MANY times worse in Haiti.
The boatmen is still an idiot but adopt the same discriminatory thinking as our US policy represents! The US Gov needs a tougher policy with our neighbor Gov who work with criminals as in this case (also the RD Gov drug traffickers
Written by: xwill7, 1 Jun 2009 11:08 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
people do anything for money. everyone wants to come to the US and think that life is easy here. when are people going to stop making these trips and respect the power of the ocean?
Written by: CESAR, 1 Jun 2009 12:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic
i think everybody that does make it to U.S shores should just say that they came from Cuba. How would they verify it??
Written by: xwill7, 1 Jun 2009 12:09 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
cesar,
they can tell by the accent
Written by: CESAR, 1 Jun 2009 12:17 PM
From: Dominican Republic
the accent is not that hard to imitate
Written by: xwill7, 1 Jun 2009 12:28 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
leave a Dominican 24 hours in a room... he is going to say vaina o dame un chin. then he will be caught... lol
Written by: oupala07 , 1 Jun 2009 3:25 PM
From: Canada
JD_Dominguez,
My friend, in the sixties when you said to Haitian that you were going to New York, because at that times and according to them, the United States were New York period. They used to answer you back : "Ou pwal benyen ou byen pwomennen chen pou blan" which we can translate : " You are going to bathe and walk the white man dogs."
And when you said that you were going to Canada, they use to ask you: " kisa li ye" which means: "What is it?" and not even "where is it?"
There was a time they did not have freedom but they were disciplined and happy and they were self sufficient and producing all the food they needed. Now that they have "freedom and democracy", they are starving in their own country, and they are dying in the open sea to escape hunger. How come you call bastards who lurred them to adventures where they have more chance to get devoured by sharks, and you are calling such devils heroes? You are calling the United States the land of freedom ...
Written by: oupala07 , 1 Jun 2009 3:30 PM
From: Canada
I am not going to waste my time getting into a long debate with you about freedom in the United States, however, this is the sort of blinding faith you are actually demonstrated in the same Press which you are criticizing, and that is helping those politicians wining your heart and mind in order to impose their hidden and sinister agenda on this great country.
I am very sorry for your innocence and at the same time very chearful for your patriotism, for you will need it when the great turbulence will shake the US once more.
From: United States
OUPALA
Stanley Handal a wealthy businessman and alleged kidnapper has been arrested.
i hope you should quickly find a Haitian Forum where your ideas could be utilized.
Handal was accused along with Wilfrid Francois,Soney Lambert,Ronald Cineus (police oficers) of kidapping Natanael Genelus.
Stanley an Arab/Haitian (what ever that means) sold amunitions and arms to both the police and the chimeres.
Oupala ,hurry up and make yourself usefull in these forums: haiti Solidarity,Haiti Democracy Project, Haiti Policy,
So much of your special talents are been wasted here in this forum.
You have not able to change not a damn mind.Your elitist,complex,idealist,romantic, utopic essays are not suitable for the our pragmatic minds.(money talks , bull shit works !!!
Gwo van ti lapli. Vientos fuertes ,pero poco lluvia !!
Written by: TN1804 , 1 Jun 2009 6:00 PM
From: Canada, Montreal
arab haitian : Arab ( chritian arabs) that move from Lebannon and Syria and even Palestine to Haiti in 1890' our early 1900 to 1930...
From: United States
Ok TN1804 Thanks .
Are these racist people called the Haitian dirty elite who have been contributing to to turn Haiti into that Helliti it is now ?????
Written by: oupala07 , 1 Jun 2009 7:24 PM
From: Canada
etiennec01,
I am useful here too, because my presence helps fight the venom inside your speech. You have no advice to give me about where to go and exercise my talent. In fact, thank you to at least acknowledge that we have some talent. What you see is nothing, we are working on sev eral books at a time, we don't know when they are going to come out, however, and so far, we're having fun writing them.
What is your talent my friend, apart spreading hatred and confusion? Do you think the whole Dominican people wants to follow innocents like you? Time will tell one day if good sens will prevail or if the fools will win, loosing all Hell.
From: United States Virgin Islands
oupala 07,
Geography is taught in all the schools in Haiti. Haitians always knew that Canada is a country near the US where they speak french and english.
From: United States Virgin Islands
Yes, if he were Cuban, He'd get a hero's welcome.
From: United States
oupala07
You can verify my talents and my contributions to humanity by going on line and just click that name CARLO ETIENNE on any search engine.
Read :
The moden world became familiar with standards of objectivity and rationality due to science. The norm for correct evaluation is the appraoach that the scientist would take, Deviations such as subjectivity or lack of logic are viewed as flawed od invalid.
In other words Haitians nurture a vain patriotism, romantize a bloody past and are anarchic
( They have destryoed their conutry)
Dominicans are realists and pragmatic.Dominicans accept what produces results,
They think ,therefore they are,
This is the vision that Haitians should follow instead of posting stupid , useless ,self aggrandizement comments ( I am having fun writing novels )
" Money talks bull shit works"
Leonel Fernadez is a CEO,he is travelling the world booking and closing deals for his country.
"E'palante que vamos"
Written by: oupala07 , 2 Jun 2009 4:35 AM
From: Canada
etiennc01,
Give us a reason why we shouldn’t show to our country the same love you’re showing to yours? Do you think you have the exclusiveness of patriotism? As for bloody past, my friend here we go at it again. You tell me one nation in the whole world whose ancestors does not have their hand stained with the blood of genocide and I’ll bow to your accusation. And it is the absolute truth that we Haitians are destroying our country, however, is it the people fault if they are clearing their country forest? Has their government given them another product to consume for energetic purpose? The way some of you are saying “you Haitians” sounds more hateful than anything else.
Yes, a lot of you are pragmatic because, like me, they have realized that hatemongering rhetoric, like the one you are laying down now, are not useful for building understanding among the two nations. As for being realists, there are a lot of job to be done in the domain.
Written by: oupala07 , 2 Jun 2009 4:36 AM
From: Canada
As for Dominicans accept what produces results, and that chest thumping “they think, therefore they are,”
I could not agree more, however, I won’t apply those quality to you, because nothing you said so far, can convince me that you as Dominican, is as smart as some of your other counterpart on this forum. In fact, you still have a long way to go before reaching our level.
The problem is that some of you are stunned to meet a Haitian who is more educated than the average you use to meet. Don’t worry, there are much many more of us. In fact, the poor lads wandering in your cities street do not exclusively represent our nation. We do have some brain that can teach anyone in your country. Reaction like yours won’t come from the real educated Dominican, he is too informed, smart and proud to lower himself and embark in such low class warfare.
Written by: oupala07 , 2 Jun 2009 4:36 AM
From: Canada
The one who is realist, as you point it out, is your president. He was quick to realize how the system works in North America, pragmatic enough to understand the good it can do to his country, and patriotic enough to apply the same concept to his land. Now, the result are so overwhelmingly enjoyable that it has swollen some of heads among your population, and with all due respect, yours too.
Don’t you have a mini subway system (the first of the Caribbean) in your Capital city? That is the work of a man with vision. Don’t you think if he was wasting his time in vain hateful rhetoric like yours and some others, the Dominican Republic would have been considered as one of the fastest growing economy in the Americas? No, he keeps working for his country and let the results and the number speak for themselves. If he was my country head of state, I would be particularly proud of his achievement.
Written by: oupala07 , 2 Jun 2009 4:37 AM
From: Canada
He knows that those tactics come from some malevolent minds who want to turn the Dominican society into an apartheid one.
I don’t think people like you have any advice to give to Haitian like myself, your envy and jealousy can be sniffed and smelled from miles away. How am I going to listen someone like you.
I won’t trade insult with you because you don’t deserve it and because you seem to be, like several others, animated by a deep sense of provocation. Keep being negative toward us, but one day you’ll wale up.
From: United States
Oupala guess who should be jealous
1- Dominican Republic, Columbia, Puerto Rico 500MW submerged cable talks advance
2_ Dominican Republic Hosts international Percussion Festival
3_Trade between Dominican Republic and Taiwan increases
4_ New prisons to be bult in Dominican Republic
5_ominican military chief awaits attack plane, radar
6_Dominican Republic competitive advantages entice South Florida investors
7_ Marina Cap Cana hosts major sport fishing tournament
8_Dominican avocadoes compete with Florida variety,thepacer.com says
This is my last post , suffer fromUHHM ( Un haitiano hablando mierda)
Your welfare check is in the mail, you are a perpetual student ( youmust continue to go to school to collect the check)
Bythe lengh of your posts I can see that you have something that I do not have "TIME"
From: United States Virgin Islands
The dominicans here are not out of maintream. They speak for the vast majority of dominicans. Haitians , please go home before another genocide occurs. BREAK ALL DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC TIES with the dominican republic. Seal the border sotight that not even a drop of water will leak.
START A CAMPAIGN TO DEMAND THAT
THE UNITED NATIONS MUST THE GENOCIDE OF 1937.
Use some of those billions you're wasting on them and get yourselves a good propaganda program. That's how they've doing it.
Written by: oupala07 , 2 Jun 2009 10:52 PM
From: Canada
Mister truthbetold,
You're really being blinded by your personal vendetta against us haitians. Haven't you read me? I was clear enough though. Nothing would make me happier than to see those nationals of mine sent back to us. As for breaking diplomatic ties, you should know better: we are used to embargoes so, we are already armored against it. However, for the economic side, I'd like you to tell me how your country will fill the hole that would be left open in its economic output? Would you have lent your president the hundreds of millions of dollars his agro industrial and construction boom would have to suffer the lost? It is very easy to stay comfortably put in a vacation spot and to mouth spread hatred.
That won't keep the reality to be understood and implemented. Our border is our breadbasket to you and to us. It is one of the spot in the world where recession hasn't caught up yet. We must keep it running and fueled its engine in order to beat this recession.
Written by: oupala07 , 2 Jun 2009 10:56 PM
From: Canada
So my friend if you want to talk about serious things like how to improve the livelihood of our people, I am all for it, as for hatred, I think you are in the wrong millenium : this is 2009 and the 21st century, it is not 1999 and the 20th one. I advise you to close the gas and to breathe heavily because you need to wake up.
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Jun 2009 1:52 PM
From: Canada
Well, I am sorry if I shut everybody up, it was not my intention. The fact is, you can't find a more powerful weapon than the truth. It's like the cross vs the vampire. At least, it has served as a mean to choke the campaing of dirt against us Haitians. Welcome to the 21st century boys, I think you'll love it.
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No mercy!
Unfortunately, perilous adventures like that won't deter my people to take their chance on the open sea in order to seek a solution to their infra human way of living. And if I must blame someone, it will be that monkey who call himself President and who, in fact, is one of the member of the cartel that is devouring our little and desolated land.
I sincerely think that we must start a shooting guerilla war in our mountain and start dying for our people and our country. However, haitians are too subdued, too tired, too hungry and too brainwashed to even think about fighting for change.
They have their hand in the drugs that come through the Freedom seekers, they prostitute not only the women, but children too, they rob, beat and steal from everyone on both Cay's
AND IF YOU THINK FOR ONE MINUTE THAT THE BAHAMAN GOVERMENT IS NOT/ WAS NOT INVOLVED..THINK ANGAIN..
They only selectively raid the place,( Little Mud & Big Mud Cay)
If the Haitian or Dominican can produce $$$$$$$$
NO PROBLEM, "MAN"
Theses "F's" give Freedom a Bad Name. It's better to get the Visa to Costa Rica and work your way to Belize..
Shrimpers want $3500 per....
"F" those rotten Bahaman...
THEN this same man would be view as a "HERO, A BEACON OF FREEDOM" who against major odds took to the seas like our forefathers in search of freedom! Likewise, the cuban immigrants would have been given immediate residency status!
Guys, learn to think for yourselves (without media or the Gov doing it for you). If the media reported that a Haitian killed Kennedy back in '63 then you would believe it (because your thinking is co-dependent not independent). Although, I am not Haitian, I do see the inconsistencies in policy despite the fact that there are hardships in Cuba but reality says... they are MANY times worse in Haiti.
The boatmen is still an idiot but adopt the same discriminatory thinking as our US policy represents! The US Gov needs a tougher policy with our neighbor Gov who work with criminals as in this case (also the RD Gov drug traffickers
they can tell by the accent
My friend, in the sixties when you said to Haitian that you were going to New York, because at that times and according to them, the United States were New York period. They used to answer you back : "Ou pwal benyen ou byen pwomennen chen pou blan" which we can translate : " You are going to bathe and walk the white man dogs."
And when you said that you were going to Canada, they use to ask you: " kisa li ye" which means: "What is it?" and not even "where is it?"
There was a time they did not have freedom but they were disciplined and happy and they were self sufficient and producing all the food they needed. Now that they have "freedom and democracy", they are starving in their own country, and they are dying in the open sea to escape hunger. How come you call bastards who lurred them to adventures where they have more chance to get devoured by sharks, and you are calling such devils heroes? You are calling the United States the land of freedom ...
I am very sorry for your innocence and at the same time very chearful for your patriotism, for you will need it when the great turbulence will shake the US once more.
Stanley Handal a wealthy businessman and alleged kidnapper has been arrested.
i hope you should quickly find a Haitian Forum where your ideas could be utilized.
Handal was accused along with Wilfrid Francois,Soney Lambert,Ronald Cineus (police oficers) of kidapping Natanael Genelus.
Stanley an Arab/Haitian (what ever that means) sold amunitions and arms to both the police and the chimeres.
Oupala ,hurry up and make yourself usefull in these forums: haiti Solidarity,Haiti Democracy Project, Haiti Policy,
So much of your special talents are been wasted here in this forum.
You have not able to change not a damn mind.Your elitist,complex,idealist,romantic, utopic essays are not suitable for the our pragmatic minds.(money talks , bull shit works !!!
Gwo van ti lapli. Vientos fuertes ,pero poco lluvia !!
Are these racist people called the Haitian dirty elite who have been contributing to to turn Haiti into that Helliti it is now ?????
I am useful here too, because my presence helps fight the venom inside your speech. You have no advice to give me about where to go and exercise my talent. In fact, thank you to at least acknowledge that we have some talent. What you see is nothing, we are working on sev eral books at a time, we don't know when they are going to come out, however, and so far, we're having fun writing them.
What is your talent my friend, apart spreading hatred and confusion? Do you think the whole Dominican people wants to follow innocents like you? Time will tell one day if good sens will prevail or if the fools will win, loosing all Hell.
Geography is taught in all the schools in Haiti. Haitians always knew that Canada is a country near the US where they speak french and english.
You can verify my talents and my contributions to humanity by going on line and just click that name CARLO ETIENNE on any search engine.
Read :
The moden world became familiar with standards of objectivity and rationality due to science. The norm for correct evaluation is the appraoach that the scientist would take, Deviations such as subjectivity or lack of logic are viewed as flawed od invalid.
In other words Haitians nurture a vain patriotism, romantize a bloody past and are anarchic
( They have destryoed their conutry)
Dominicans are realists and pragmatic.Dominicans accept what produces results,
They think ,therefore they are,
This is the vision that Haitians should follow instead of posting stupid , useless ,self aggrandizement comments ( I am having fun writing novels )
" Money talks bull shit works"
Leonel Fernadez is a CEO,he is travelling the world booking and closing deals for his country.
"E'palante que vamos"
Give us a reason why we shouldn’t show to our country the same love you’re showing to yours? Do you think you have the exclusiveness of patriotism? As for bloody past, my friend here we go at it again. You tell me one nation in the whole world whose ancestors does not have their hand stained with the blood of genocide and I’ll bow to your accusation. And it is the absolute truth that we Haitians are destroying our country, however, is it the people fault if they are clearing their country forest? Has their government given them another product to consume for energetic purpose? The way some of you are saying “you Haitians” sounds more hateful than anything else.
Yes, a lot of you are pragmatic because, like me, they have realized that hatemongering rhetoric, like the one you are laying down now, are not useful for building understanding among the two nations. As for being realists, there are a lot of job to be done in the domain.
I could not agree more, however, I won’t apply those quality to you, because nothing you said so far, can convince me that you as Dominican, is as smart as some of your other counterpart on this forum. In fact, you still have a long way to go before reaching our level.
The problem is that some of you are stunned to meet a Haitian who is more educated than the average you use to meet. Don’t worry, there are much many more of us. In fact, the poor lads wandering in your cities street do not exclusively represent our nation. We do have some brain that can teach anyone in your country. Reaction like yours won’t come from the real educated Dominican, he is too informed, smart and proud to lower himself and embark in such low class warfare.
Don’t you have a mini subway system (the first of the Caribbean) in your Capital city? That is the work of a man with vision. Don’t you think if he was wasting his time in vain hateful rhetoric like yours and some others, the Dominican Republic would have been considered as one of the fastest growing economy in the Americas? No, he keeps working for his country and let the results and the number speak for themselves. If he was my country head of state, I would be particularly proud of his achievement.
I don’t think people like you have any advice to give to Haitian like myself, your envy and jealousy can be sniffed and smelled from miles away. How am I going to listen someone like you.
I won’t trade insult with you because you don’t deserve it and because you seem to be, like several others, animated by a deep sense of provocation. Keep being negative toward us, but one day you’ll wale up.
1- Dominican Republic, Columbia, Puerto Rico 500MW submerged cable talks advance
2_ Dominican Republic Hosts international Percussion Festival
3_Trade between Dominican Republic and Taiwan increases
4_ New prisons to be bult in Dominican Republic
5_ominican military chief awaits attack plane, radar
6_Dominican Republic competitive advantages entice South Florida investors
7_ Marina Cap Cana hosts major sport fishing tournament
8_Dominican avocadoes compete with Florida variety,thepacer.com says
This is my last post , suffer fromUHHM ( Un haitiano hablando mierda)
Your welfare check is in the mail, you are a perpetual student ( youmust continue to go to school to collect the check)
Bythe lengh of your posts I can see that you have something that I do not have "TIME"
START A CAMPAIGN TO DEMAND THAT
THE UNITED NATIONS MUST THE GENOCIDE OF 1937.
Use some of those billions you're wasting on them and get yourselves a good propaganda program. That's how they've doing it.
You're really being blinded by your personal vendetta against us haitians. Haven't you read me? I was clear enough though. Nothing would make me happier than to see those nationals of mine sent back to us. As for breaking diplomatic ties, you should know better: we are used to embargoes so, we are already armored against it. However, for the economic side, I'd like you to tell me how your country will fill the hole that would be left open in its economic output? Would you have lent your president the hundreds of millions of dollars his agro industrial and construction boom would have to suffer the lost? It is very easy to stay comfortably put in a vacation spot and to mouth spread hatred.
That won't keep the reality to be understood and implemented. Our border is our breadbasket to you and to us. It is one of the spot in the world where recession hasn't caught up yet. We must keep it running and fueled its engine in order to beat this recession.