A new Prime Minister by a Presidential tweet HAPPENINGS ! By RAJ President Jovenel Moïse started the week by tweeting on Monday (March 2nd) the name of a new Prime Minister, after a full year with an interim one at the helms, while being doubled by another interim, nominated last July, but who was in limbo...
HAPPENINGS! Systematically, the Dictatorship is evolving Following his dismissal, in a January 12 tweet, of 10 Senators still with a mandate of two more years, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse’s decree of February 12, is another full power grab, which will allow him to grant government contracts without oversight. Unquestionably, that’s another step down the path...
Voices of Hope for Haiti’s Future Edited by Hugh Locke This is the second installment of positive initiatives in Haiti that show promise for the future. Creating opportunities for artisans through cultural heritage preservation and exports For the past decade Caribbean Craft has brought to Haiti many international brands for which we develop collections of...
Haitian-American Rodneyse Bichotte becomes chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party by Raymond A Joseph We apologize to our readers and to Assembly member Rodneyse Bichotte for the mistake which occurred in our last issue in which the following story about Assembly member whose pictures were mistakenly used to illustrate another unrelated story. As the saying...
In the eye of the Haitian political storm by Hugh Locke Although there is a return to normalcy in Haiti following last year’s protests and national lockdown, it feels like the calm at the center of a tropical storm. The issues that led to the lockdown constitute the outer ring of the storm because they...
On the Eve of the Earthquake’s 10th Anniversary, Timberland Reflects on a Decade of Investment in Haiti By Atlanta McIlwraith Sunday, January 12 will mark the 10th anniversary of the catastrophic 7.0 MW earthquake that struck Haiti and shook the world. For months following the disaster, international media kept Haiti in focus and shared stories...
Denouncing the inconsistency of the international community’s policy towards Haiti by Editor The Haitian people have been mobilizing for more than a year to demand the resignation of Jovenel Moïse, a Head of State repudiated by the vast majority of the citizens, whether those at home or others abroad. Uniformly, the more than two or three...
I ACCUSE ! An open letter to the nation by Député (Congressman) Jerry Tardieu It now takes 100 gourdes to buy one US dollar. After two years of President Jovenel Moise’s term, the buying power of the Haitian people has been reduced by half. In the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere, Haitians have lost half of their buying...
Digital Champions for Hait By Hugh Locke and Atlanta McIlwraith SPECIAL To H-O — Five Columbia University students who hail from China, India, South Korea and Thailand deserve the designation “digital champions” for designing a revolutionary new app to help members of Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) in Haiti, and eventually other parts of the world....
HAPPENINGS Jerry Tardieu in conference SPECIAL TO H-O. — It happened at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., last Tuesday evening, April 2, where Député (Congressman) Jerry Tardieu, representing the Pétion-Ville constituency in the Lower House of Parliament, spoke to a full house at the Fong Auditorium of Boylston Hall. The topic, “Haiti. After the 2010...
