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Yearly Archives: 2012

Rapid Changes to Global Water Cycle Imply Severer Floods, Droughts, Famines

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. An article by Paul Durak and colleagues in the Journal Science represents yet more confirmation that the effects of global warming are stronger than anticipated from scientific models. An intensification of water evaporation and precipitation over the Earth implies severe consequences for living things, including famines, floods, droughts, and general climate instability.

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New Religion of Kopimism Promotes ‘Exchange Without Beginning and Without End’

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Muriel Kane, Raw Story | Interview of Isak Gerson with Alison George | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “Life as we know it originated with the DNA molecule’s ability to duplicate itself, irrespective of the original creation of the Universe.… Copying is fundamental to life and runs constantly all around us…. ‘From all at one and from one to all – and then back – exchange without beginning and without end.'”

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Francoist Nun Charged With Theft of Babies from Poor Single Women | Ladrones de bebés ante la justicia

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Inés Benítez, IPS, Cambio3. Eighty-year-old Catholic nun, María Gómez, is charged with involvement in the 1982 disappearance of a child who was reunited as an adult with her biological mother in 2011. The Spanish nun is alleged to have belonged to a network that stole babies from clinics and sold them to infertile couples. Such networks had continued in Spain well into the 1970s and 1980s. (English | Spanish)

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Haitian National Police on Strike After 3 Killed in 48 Hours | La police nationale haïtienne en grève après la mort de 3 policiers en 48 heures

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Staff (rh gp jep kft rc), AlterPresse | Jose Flecher, Le Matin | AHP | Translation by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Since the beginning of the year, 12 policemen have been killed in Port-au-Prince, including 3 who were killed on April 16-17, 2012. One of them, Walky Calixte, was shot by the bodyguard of an MP. (English | French)

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U.S. Judge Finds Intentional and Systemic Racial Discrimination in Capital Cases | A Mother Would Have Lost Both Sons

avatarPosted on by December 20, 2018

ACLU PRESS RELEASE | Jessica Jones, WUNC. In a landmark decision, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks found intentional and systemic discrimination by state prosecutors against African-American potential jurors in capital cases and commuted the sentence of death-row prisoner Marcus Robinson to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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Breadfruit With Okra – Tomtom ak Kalalou Gombo – Veritab ak Gombo

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Jean Edner Dorvil in: A Taste of Haiti (Hyppocrene books, NY) | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Tomtom ak Kalalou Gombo is traditional to the town of Jeremie, in southern Haiti, but in colonial times this was the everyday dish of the Haitians. It is never eaten alone.

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New Wildlife Sanctuaries in the Sundarbans for Freshwater Dolphins

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

By Staff, SPX via Terra Daily | Staff, Wildlife Conservation Society. The Government of Bangladesh recently declared three new wildlife sanctuaries for endangered freshwater dolphins in the world’s largest mangrove ecosystem – the Sundarbans. In 2009 these areas were discovered to harbor thousands of freshwater dolphins, when only a few hundreds were thought to remain in the entire world.

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Nicaraguan Women and Their Revolution | Mujeres y su revolución en Nicaragua

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Tortilla con sal, You Tube. Nicaraguan women talk in this inspiring video about leaving behind a past as domestic servants and factory workers. Now women feel encouraged to study to improve themselves, still raise children alone but with hope for the future, and exercise political power in their communities.(English | Spanish)

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Piarroux: Haiti Epidemic Could Be Gone in Months, Vaccination Target St Marc Has No Cholera | Interview du Dr Renaud Piarroux sur le choléra d’Haiti avec Priorité Santé

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English) | Renaud Piarroux and Claire Hedon, Priorite Sante (French). Contrary to the daily predictions of mayhem from the mainstream press about Haiti’s cholera epidemic, Dr. Renaud Piarroux, who has access to up-to-date medical information and laboratory results about the epidemic, says that cholera could be completely eradicated from Haiti in a few months, but not by the oral vaccination campaign promoted by Haiti’s Ministry of Public Health and Population. (English | French)

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In PIH Oral Cholera Vaccine Trial, Rights of Haitians Should be Respected

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A medical trial in Haiti — presumably of the oral cholera vaccine Shanchol — on poor women and children is being presented as a vaccination campaign. To avoid possible abuse it is essential that the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines be followed.

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Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects | Principes éthiques applicables à la recherche médicale impliquant des êtres humains

avatarPosted on by December 22, 2018

By the World Medical Association. Guidelines for all research on humans include a requirement to inform potential human subjects of their right to abstain or withdraw consent at any time. Potential subjects must be informed of the purpose, methods, funding sources, conflicts of interest and benefits of the research, as well as the risks of possible side effects. The guidelines also require researchers and their publishers to supply complete and accurate information on their findings, including negative results. (English | French)

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