Martelly favors free zone jobs

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President-elect of Haiti Michel Martelly visited the installations of the Codevi Free Trade Zone in Ouanaminthe near the border in the Dominican Republic at Dajabon. As reported in Listin Diario, he said he would back the creation of more jobs using the Codevi model. Codevi has provided 6,500 jobs, mostly to Haitians in the apparel industry. He toured the installations in the Haitian border town, known by Dominicans as Juana Mendez, with the CEO of the parent company Grupo M, Fernando Capellan. Grupo M, the largest apparel manufacturer in the Dominican Republic, has free zone operations in Ouanaminthe and Jacmel on the Haitian side of the border.

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