Editorial
Chaotic Elections Bookends Tumultuous Year in Haiti
It is only fitting that a man-made disaster would bookend the year in Haiti after a natural disaster started the year. Haiti has had quite a year of devastation, empty promises and more misery. U...
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Haiti’s Miseries Require Problem Solving Approach
Nearly a year since the January 12 earthquake; more than two months since the first cholera’s case, who in the Haitian Government, among the 19 presidential candidates, from the civil society has p...
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The Tragicomedy of a Chaotic Sunday Election
Like most everything in Haiti’s tradition, last Sunday election was an occasion for disorderly events, and confusing interpretations. On one side, observers of the Organization of American States...
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What the Candidates Are not Telling the Haitian People
As the 19 presidential candidates crisscrossed through the mountainous Caribbean nation of Haiti, most of them are boasting crowds in the thousands that have turned out to hear them. The spin from...
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Of Trash and Haiti’s Large Cities
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The first thing that you noticed when you arrive in Port-au-Prince is how dirty it is. Garbage piles are everywhere. Putrid odor permeates the smog engulfing the teeming capital of more tha...
Focus on Jobs is Good, but Not Enough
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Since the beginning of his campaign and since he has been the President of the United States, Barack Obama has repeated in several ways that “Our future is inextricably linked to the education of...
Haiti’s Political Games Could be Comic if they Weren’t so Tragic
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When an event occurs, in most instances, it brings more questions than answers. For the second time in Rene Preval’s presidency, the Senate has fired his Prime Minister. This raises several quest...
Agricultural Sufficiency is the Solution against Hunger and Poverty
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When a wise Haitian said: “Sak vid pa kanpe doubout” [Empty bag don’t stand up], the pretending sophisticated listener will conclude: “Se pawòl peyizan” [That’s peasant talk]. That kind of commen...
Haitian Government Needs a Comprehensive Development Plan
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Unless we are not well informed, it does not seem that the “rainfall” of investments Bill Clinton is in process of “showering” on Haiti is part of an economic sustainable master plan. If it exist...
Florida Haitian-American Aiming At U.S. Congress
by Haitian Times Staff
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Florida Senator Mel Martinez’s decision not to run for reelection has opened the door for Rep. Kendrick Meek to seek his post next electoral campaign. After a Latino and an African-American here ...