Port-au-Prince, September 23, 2025.- On Monday, 1 September, the Office for the Protection of the Citizen (OPC) launched the ninth edition of its national competition for texts and reports for journalists, students and schoolchildren. Two innovations mark this edition: multimedia reporting becomes mandatory for journalists and awards will now bear the names of great Haitian figures. These clarifications were provided by Mr. Fadia Martha St-Vil, Director of Promotion and Communication of the OPC, during an interview with Radio Magik 9 on Tuesday, 23 September.
The protector of the citizen, Jean Wilner Morin, intends to give a new impetus to this initiative launched by his predecessor, Mr. Renan Hédouville. In category A, journalists must submit a multimedia report in addition to a text on one of the topics proposed, such as elections, media propaganda or the crisis of internally displaced persons.
For students (category B), it will be to produce an academic text of 4 to 6 pages on major issues such as corruption, political instability or the protection of privacy in the digital age. School children (category C) will have to write a 3- to 4-page text on the impact of insecurity on education and the vulnerability of girls in improvised camps.
Another new feature is that the awards awarded to the winners will now bear the names of emblematic personalities. The journalists' prize will be named « Jean Léopold Dominique Prize », the student prize will honour the writer Frankétienne, while the student prize will honour the teacher Charles Guy Étienne, director of the Collège Catts Pressoir.
According to the timetable communicated by the OPC, candidates have until 3 November 2025 to submit their work. The screening will be published on 21 November, followed by interviews from 25 to 28 November. The final results will be known on December 1 and the official awards ceremony will be held on December 5, 2025.
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