RADIO CONTINENTALE · GONAÏVES, HAITI

Born in Gonaïves.
Connected to the World.

From Haiti’s historic Independence City, Radio Continentale brings together news, music, culture, conversation, and the voices of our community.

● LIVE · 99.5 FM

Radio Antenne Continentale
Gonaïves, Haiti

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CHAPTER 01 · WHO WE ARE

More Than a Radio Station

Radio Continentale is a community radio station. The relationship with listeners is the work: local voices, local news, music, culture, public conversation, and community information. Haitian artists are part of that sound. So are sports, the arts, and the conversations that travel between Gonaïves and the diaspora.

Radio has always been close to daily life here: music in the morning, news through the day, conversation in the evening, and a shared Haitian voice that travels farther than the city limits.

99.5 FM

FREQUENCY · GONAÏVES

1992

ON AIR SINCE JULY 25

1804

INDEPENDENCE PROCLAIMED HERE

Artibonite

OUR DEPARTMENT · HAITI

GONAÏVES · ARTIBONITE

Our Home, Gonaïves

Gonaïves is the capital of Haiti’s Artibonite department and is known across the country as the Cité de l’Indépendance. The city grew from an earlier settlement remembered as Gonaibo. Its public square, Place d’Armes, is the place Haitians associate with the proclamation of independence. Streets, markets, churches, and family life continue around that memory.

Radio Continentale broadcasts from that same city. The station’s home is bound to a place Haitians remember as the starting point of the nation.

CHAPTER 02 · OUR STORY

From Independence City to 99.5 FM

The story of the station is bound to the story of its city. Gonaïves gave Haiti its independence; a rooftop in Descahos gave Gonaïves a new voice. Follow the signal from 1804 to today.

1804

A Nation Declares Its Freedom

On January 1, 1804, at the headquarters in Gonaïves, Jean-Jacques Dessalines gathered his generals and announced that the former colony of Saint-Domingue was a free nation. The new country took the name Hayti, drawn from the island’s Taíno past. That act made Haiti the second independent country in the Americas, and the first nation born from a successful revolt against slavery.

1892

A City Takes Shape on Paper

A nineteenth-century plan of Gonaïves, published in 1892, records the streets and public squares of the Cité de l’Indépendance — the same grid where markets, churches, and family life continue today.

1904

A Century of Independence

For the 1904 centenary of independence, Gonaïves built the Centennial Palace. Photographs from that year show a public gathering in the city — the memory of 1804 carried into a new century.

1992

A Rooftop in Descahos

On July 25, 1992, Radio Continentale began in Descahos, in the southeast of Gonaïves, when a group of young people started broadcasting from the roof of a private residence. From that rooftop beginning, the station found its place with listeners in Haiti’s Independence City.

Today

A Modern Radio and Digital Platform

The work continues on a modern radio and digital platform. Radio Continentale — 99.5 FM — remains a community station from Gonaïves, made for listeners at home and for Haitians who keep the city with them abroad.

GONAÏVES · CITÉ DE L'INDÉPENDANCE

For Haitians, Gonaïves is not only a city on the Artibonite coast. It is the place where a people declared that they would live free.

The memory of January 1, 1804 still shapes national identity, Independence Day gatherings, and the city’s name as the Cité de l’Indépendance — marked each year in Gonaïves, across the country, and throughout the diaspora.

CHAPTER 03 · MISSION AND VISION

A Signal for Gonaïves, Haiti, and the Diaspora

OUR MISSION

The Signal Serves the City

The station does not stand apart from the city. It is one of the ways Gonaïves hears itself — and one of the ways people far from home stay close to it.

OUR VISION

From Gonaïves to the World

Our home is Gonaïves. Our community reaches far beyond it. Haitians in the United States, Canada, France, the Caribbean, and other diaspora communities listen for the same things people listen for in the city: news, music, culture, and a familiar voice from home.

UNITED STATES · CANADA · FRANCE · CARIBBEAN · COMMUNITIES FARTHER STILL

CHAPTER 04 · OUR VALUES

Our Purpose

Five commitments that shape what Radio Continentale puts on air — for Gonaïves, for Haiti, and for listeners far from home.

Inform

News and conversation that help listeners understand Gonaïves, Haiti, and the world.

Connect

A shared signal between Gonaïves, Haiti, and Haitian communities abroad.

Celebrate

Music, artists, and the culture that gives Haitian life its color.

Preserve

Haitian language, memory, and the story of Gonaïves as Independence City.

Entertain

The comfort of listening — music and companionship on 99.5 FM.

CHAPTER 05 · THE FUTURE

The Voice of Our Community Continues

Radio Continentale broadcasts from the city where a nation began — for listeners at home in Gonaïves and for Haitians who keep the city with them abroad. The home is still Gonaïves. The purpose is still the same: to inform, to connect, and to keep Le Confort D’écoute at the center of the signal.

Your radio in Gonaïves, Haiti. Radio Antenne Continentale brings you closer to what matters, with credible information, quality music and programs that bring our community to life.

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