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Solidarity as defined by President Aristide takes root in the African philosophy of Ubuntu, Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: “a person is a person through other human beings. A person becomes a person through the community. […]
Depuis environ un mois, un mouvement dénommé “PetroCaribeChallenge” a été lancé et s’est intensifié très vite. Ce mouvement demande entre autres la reddition de compte, l’arrestation des pétro-voleurs et la saisie de […]
Ce rapport du PNUD pour le développement humain devrait servir de catalyseur au Premier ministre afin de mieux orienter l’action gouvernementale. La position d’Haïti parmi les pays à faible revenu de 1990 […]
It seems that black athletes are allowed a single role, their humanity and personal politics flattened, even erased. When they dare to do anything else besides dribble or hit a ball, the […]
Electoral observers who cover Latin America and the Caribbean see the threat of “systematic, massive fraud” in upcoming elections in a country of longstanding strategic concern to the United States.They argue that […]
The Dominican government says it has identified roughly 55,000 people who have some sort of document to support their claims of Dominican birth. It received 8,755 applications from people who did not […]
The world should stand firmly against this brutal and despicable immigration policy in order to promote human dignity and deter other nations from adopting a similar measure. We support the Haitian government’s […]
As it has always done when confronted with allegations or evidence of corruption, FIFA declared that the investigations were good for the organization and that FIFA was fully cooperating. Sepp Blatter, the […]
Four years into his tenure as Haiti’s president, Michel Martelly, unfortunately, has ceased to govern his poor country, and now instead rules it through executive order. He has tightened his grip on […]
The Martelly government responded with brutal repression in various communities such as in Montrouis, north of Port-au-Prince, where massive use of tear gas killed two children and police gunfire wounded a number […]
Without deviation, the stories below the compassionate headlines recalling the tremendous loss of life and destruction exacted in 45 seconds on January 12, 2010 report that Haiti’s government, economy and future are […]
Malheureusement, pour la plupart de ceux qui s’en servent, ce slogan n’est rien d’autre qu’un slogan. Dès qu’il s’agit pour eux de sanctionner un des leurs coupables d’une quelconque faute, la plupart […]
Different countries have relative economic strengths. The United States fosters innovation, China excels at production, but Haiti barely participates in the global economy. Yet as a low-wage country close to the world’s […]
From time to time, Haiti’s chronic political dysfunction erupts in crisis and violence, compelling the international community to re-engage with an impoverished country it might prefer to disregard. Haiti is at just […]
Indeed, without Haiti’s help, there would not have been any independent country in Latin America. On January 1, 1816, when Simon Bolivar arrived in Haiti, downtrodden and desperate for help to fight […]
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Les 6 sénateurs de la République sont désormais présentés comme les principaux, pour ne pas dire les uniques, obstacles à la tenue des élections : c’est le point de vue du gouvernement Martelly/Lamothe. […]
Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide is once again being hounded with bogus corruption allegations by the government of Michel Martelly – a government that owes its existence to US bullying. I don’t dismiss corruption allegations against […]
But there is still a very long way to go, particularly in the rural communities that have been virtually untouched by the international outreach efforts. They have no access to clean water, […]
On March 18, 2011, tens of thousands of people followed President Aristide’s car as it drove from the airport to his home, following his return from seven years of forced exile. They […]
But there are also signs of hope. Increased community engagement and changes in hygiene practices have freed the women, men, and children of Los Palmas and the neighboring village of Jacob of […]
Regarding Agustin Aguerre’s May 27 letter in response to Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s May 19 Americas column “Bill, Hillary and the Haiti Debacle”:Mr. Aguerre claims the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission IHRC didn’t “actually […]
Today, this old Haiti with which most of us are still infatuated, or at least, its antique reputation that we strive to hold so pridefully, would now fit perfectly into the #ThrowbackThursday […]
It is at the borders of one of the countries of Latin America, or as far as Turkey, that the networks of the border pirates take them. Globalization opened all doors of […]
I read with great disappointment a Wall Street Journal op-ed about Haiti’s recovery efforts (“Bill, Hillary and the Haiti Debacle,” May 19). Unfortunately, the piece gets many key facts about the approval […]
In April 2013, Lamothe and his former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Richard Casimir, admitted under oath during a Senate hearing that they misappropriated $3.4 million of government funds. Lamothe’s claims of Haiti’s […]
While it is very unfortunate that the United Nations (UN) has been linked to the outbreak of cholera that has been afflicting Haiti since the earthquake a few years ago, I think […]
“The objective of every peacekeeping mission is for the national authorities to take over the responsibilities to which the mission makes its contributions,” says Sandra Honoré of Trinidad and Tobago, who is […]
Every morning, little girls and boys dressed in neatly pressed school uniforms, crowd the streets of Port-au-Prince headed toward what many believe are the steps toward a brighter future. Yet despite the […]
Drawing attention to the continuing catastrophe of cholera in Haiti is critical to bringing an end to the preventable suffering and death that stem from the true root cause: poor access to […]
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The reality is that the Haitian economy is being weaned off of international aid flows that immediately followed the earthquake. Even more importantly may be the fact that the volatility of the […]
Not satisfied with absconding with $9 billion in earthquake relief that left little footprint except giving Haiti the cholera disease, the U.S. occupiers of Haiti are sending their hand-picked president and prime […]
The deadly outbreak first hit Haiti in October 2010, ten months after a calamitous earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and ravaged the country’s already crumbling infrastructure. The diarrheal disease, which had […]
NEARLY THREE years into his term, Haitian President Michel Martelly has yet to hold parliamentary or local elections. Endless negotiations with a fractured political opposition amid an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and […]
“We’ve tried for four months to serve the papers on the U.N., sending process servers to the United Nations headquarters. When they get there, they’re denied access,” said Beatrice Lindstrom, an attorney […]
Le premier collier découle de ses engagements pris en face de Barack Obama. Faire d’Haïti un pays démocratiquement fort et réaliser des élections libres et transparentes constituent un contrat. S’asseoir au Bureau […]
Martelly à Washington joue le tournant de sa présidence .
This issue has become front and center in the Dominican Republic, where a Constitutional Court ruling on citizenship sparked a heated debate among regional governments and civil societies, as well as among […]
The Constitutional Court decision to strip thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship has unleashed a flurry of commentary both inside and outside the Caribbean nation. Some like Dominican-American author […]
Ce n\’était pas l\’ iconoclaste Martelly, arrogant et petit dictateur de pacotille que le public avait vu à la séance de l\’ouverture de l\’année législative ce deuxième Lundi du mois de Janvier […]
Critical questions remain to be answered by an independent international audit that seems quite necessary, of the financial and humanitarian aid delivered and for which CARICOM and the Organization of American States […]
Mr. Kristof aptly points to poverty, lack of family planning and no access to education as root causes of restavek slavery. The vulnerability and lack of awareness within rural, impoverished communities are […]
Les trois (3) Pouvoirs de l’Etat sont en désaccord sur bien des points. A la base, la sempiternelle question des élections et l’épineuse question de la formation du Conseil Electoral Permanent (CEP). […]
In effect, it also means that three generations of one family could be deported. Since the Sept. 23 ruling, deportations have begun: The Associated Press reported that over 300 people have been […]
Au niveau de l\’exécutif se cache une opposition silencieuse, subtile et inconnue par peur de représailles économiques ou de se retrouver au chômage. Précarité oblige. Y aurait des voix compétentes qui ne […]
Too many journalists are asking us to compare Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Many of us here were in Port-au-Prince in 2010 and we all agree: the two […]
La corruption ne constitue en rien un obstacle au développement. Le manque de transparence dans la gestion des ressources publiques, et notamment de Petro caribe, encore moins. Les contrats de gré à […]
Nous revoilà avec un autre président de tendance fasciste, qui établit déjà ses sbires partout dans le pays, pour prendre en otage les institutions étatiques, les partis politiques, la société civile et […]
Le Président va d’erreur en erreur en adoptant une posture de rébellion contre la Constitution, contre la loi et contre les institutions de l’État. En faisant une interprétation abusive de […]
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