Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Wadner Pierre Credit:Wadner Pierre/IPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti’s capital city, the sun is already up. It’s the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She’s [...]
Haitians in DR Reap Far Less than They Sow
August 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jon Anderson BONAO, Monseñor Province, Dominican Republic, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) – Luis Miguel, a soft-spoken and serious 21-year-old from Haiti’s Artibonnite Valley, stands on a ridge overlooking the small farm in the Dominican Cibao where he works as the owner’s overseer. He adopted his Dominican moniker [...]
HAITI: Six Months On, Shelter Still a Main Priority
July 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Jul 12, 2010 (IPS) – Six months ago Monday, an earthquake rocked the western hemisphere’s poorest country, driving it deeper into poverty and burying it under its nascent infrastructure. The 7.0 quake killed 230,000 people and its after-effects – hunger, contaminated water, escalating [...]
HAITI: U.N. Clash with Frustrated Students Spills into Camps
May 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 25 (IPS) – United Nations peacekeeping troops responded to a rock-throwing demonstration by university students Monday evening with a barrage of tear gas and rubber bullets in the area around Haiti’s National Palace, sending masses of displaced Haitians running out of tent camps into [...]
Haiti Asks Expat Professionals to Return and Help
May 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS A. D. McKenzie PARIS, May 13 (IPS) – Members of the Haitian diaspora responded with ”massive and spontaneous” aid immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake, with thousand of professionals leaving jobs abroad to go and assist their compatriots, according to a government minister. Now the Haitian authorities are [...]
U.S. House Clears Haiti Trade Bill
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, May 5 (IPS) – The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday approved a major trade bill designed to boost U.S. and other investment in Haiti’s textile and apparel industry following January’s devastating earthquake in which at least 200,000 people are believed to have been killed. The bipartisan [...]
Haitian-Dominican Relations Warming After Quake
April 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Garry Pierre-Pierre* SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic, Apr 20 (IPS) – Angela Solis de Pena remembered the story that her parents told her of a Haitian man who tried to rape a Dominican woman; after the woman escaped the man chased her and hacked her to death. ”I was petrified of [...]
HAITI: Displaced Fear Expulsion from Makeshift Camps
April 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ansel Herz* PORT-AU-PRINCE, Apr 8 (IPS) – For decades, the Saint Louis de Gonzague school has groomed some of Haiti’s most elite political players. Francois Duvalier, the iron-fisted dictator who ruled Haiti for 14 years, sent his son to the school. About 1,500 children of Haiti’s wealthiest class attend [...]
HAITI: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dollars
March 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Mar 17 (IPS) – Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. In its draft ”Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment” [...]
HAITI: Experts Urge Sea Change in ”Culture of Aid”
March 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS William Fisher NEW YORK, Mar 5 (IPS) – A delegation of human rights experts is preparing to visit Haiti to assess the human rights and aid situation in the earthquake-crippled nation and to urge the international community to follow a series of guidelines they have prepared to help donors’ [...]
