As a nation, we tend to focus more on the bad than to promote the good. We usually like to agree with people who are different than us than to compromise with our own. We are a proud nation, but ti...
Our generation must put an end to the everlasting nation-building that our beloved country has been going through ever since its foundation. We are presented with an opportunity and a challenge t...
Any talk of a new Haiti must start with job creation and end with jobs that pay a decent wage. Before the quake Haiti’s unemployment rate was one of the highest in the region, and the few who hel...
A Quick Fix is a Non-Starter I am not a big fan of quick fixes and can never get to wrap my mind around temporary solutions. For that many people who know me think that I am lay back or just never feel the need for urgency. ...
Rebuilding Haiti, Not Just Port-au-Prince, Up to Haitians Let us not kid ourselves. We must take control of the situation— and the sooner, the better. Of the many editorials I’ve read in leading news media outlets in the United States lately, many...
Let Love and Service Guide the Rebuilding In less than one minute, everything changed. On my way home from work the evening of Jan. 12, I took a glance at status updates on one of the many social websites and read that an earthquake of 7...
Looking Toward the New Year As we enter a new year and decade, the horizon is full of hope and optimism about the endless possibilities that are awaiting us. While this time usually ushers in new optimism, I have a gut fee...
The Haitian Civil Society We have the beginning of a functioning civil society, when a community unites and gathers around a common purpose. Occupying the same space without any useful agenda for the greater community can...
Haiti is ranked 12th on the list of failed states index for the year 2009. By population size only a few countries on that list are smaller than we are. Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is as low...
Even people with a doctorate degree find it necessary to always have access to education. For them, it is not so much about getting the basic skills, but rather to keep up with new technology in ...
In a country of roughly 9 million people, only 55,000 people are employed by the State, which is considered to be the biggest employer in the country. Unemployment in Haiti is an epidemic that mu...
The human species has been able to progress because every now and then, we have been blessed with the presence of men who were not satisfied to do the bare minimum. More often than not, to eng...
Who amongst us believe the task of ameliorating the living conditions of more than 8 million people in Haiti is an easy task? I am simply tired of hearing how complex and difficult the problems o...
We must act before it is too late. Do you ever wonder what happen after a violent crime is committed in your city? Do you ever think about the effect such an act could have on the victim’s family...
How did we get to become Haitians? I sure hope it was not a strike of luck. History has told us that we are mostly of African descent by our genetic make up, and almost entirely European, French ...
On Friday July 9th, I attended a presentation in Boston, Massachusetts by Guy Theodore, who is a potential candidate for the Haitian presidency in 2010. If first impression matters, in that regar...
The house of the poor has no master; indeed Haiti being one of the poorest nations on this planet is proving to be a land with no one in charge. There was an avalanche of events that took place i...
As much as I am devoted to seeing social changes taking place in my beloved Haiti, I have to admit that I am a passionate sports fan. Soccer being in the blood of most Haitians, living in America...