{"id":17006,"date":"2025-10-23T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17006\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:23:08","slug":"cap-haitien-mayor-angie-bell-aims-to-drive-sustainable-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17006\/","title":{"rendered":"Cap-Ha\u00eftien Mayor Angie Bell aims to drive sustainable growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM<\/p>\n<p>Cap-Ha\u00eftien Mayor Angie Bell aims to drive sustainable growth <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Just weeks into her role as Cap-Ha\u00eftien\u2019s new mayor, Angie Bell is pushing for change and sustainable development in the northern Haitian city she calls home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to change the narratives and bring more sustainable development back to Haiti,\u201d Bell said at the Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo, where she met with business and civic leaders to explore new partnerships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cap-Ha\u00eftien has been a sister city to Fort Lauderdale for more than two decades. Bell said she wants to strengthen those ties and attract investment to tackle growing challenges, including worsening waste management and an influx of residents seeking safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s one of our priorities \u2014 to collaborate with people and investors to strengthen the organizations already there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FITCE country chair Djenane Gourgue praised Bell as \u201ca member of the diaspora who chose to return home and take initiative in Haiti.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Appointed to her post amid Haiti\u2019s ongoing political crisis, Bell said she hopes to inspire younger leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM Cap-Ha\u00eftien Mayor Angie Bell aims to drive sustainable growth FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-17006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}