A new kind of mobile aid for Haiti
After Haiti’s devastating earthquake in January, people around the world whipped out their mobile phones to send millions of dollars in aid via text message to charities including the Red Cross. Now a...
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It’s very hard to be upbeat about Haiti at the moment. Lurching from crisis to crisis, it is in the thick of a cholera epidemic, which the UN now thinks could affect double the amount of people –...
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Violence endangers Haiti’s recovery
The situation developing in Haiti does not look promising. With serious outbreaks of violence across the country in protest against “massive fraud” in the recent presidential elections, those that...
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Haiti: Michel Martelly’s daunting task
Finally, Haiti’s long and drawn out presidential elections are over, and there is a winner: the flamboyant carnival singer Michel Martelly, self-styled “bad boy of kompa” (a kind of slowed down,...
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Haiti: businesses needed in the Republic of NGOs
It has now been two years since an earthquake tore apart Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, and it’s obvious that there’s widespread dissatisfaction at the excruciatingly slow progress of reconstruction....
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A ray of hope for Haiti
You could hardly argue that things have been going well lately for Haiti. Quite apart from being cruelly ravaged more than two years ago now by an earthquake from which it is still struggling to...
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Sandy worsens Haiti’s food crisis
Such is the shock at the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy in the US that it has gone largely unnoticed that long-suffering Haiti was hit very badly too. Not only is Haiti’s death toll of 54 much...
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Yunus’s latest project: chickens in Haiti
Persuading a Brazilian company to invest $300,000 in chickens in Haiti may sound like a rather tall order. Not, though, if you’re Muhammad Yunus. The Nobel peace prize winner and Brasil Foods (BRF),...
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Guest post: The case for Made in Haiti
By Laurent Lamothe, Prime Minister of Haiti Today, the global apparel and light manufacturing industry is undergoing a transformation, with international buyers increasingly looking towards the...
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Dominican Republic and Haiti: relations unravelling
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a long and tumultuous history. The two countries are joined by geography but separated by language and scarred by reciprocal massacres. Yet after a brief thaw in...
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Haiti needs post-election energy to overcome aid fatigue
The second round of Haiti’s presidential elections, already plagued by low turnout, violence and fraud allegations, has been postponed indefinitely for “security reasons”, according to the electoral...
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