Category Archives: Haiti

Cholera Vaccines Unnecessary, Ineffective, Expensive, and Dangerous

avatarPosted on by July 30, 2022

By Rashid Haider, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cholera vaccines are being pushed on Haiti, especially Shanchol, a vaccine that protects only 45 percent of those vaccinated during the first year and is unsuitable for controlling epidemic or endemic cholera. Shanchol is expensive. In addition, preparations of it for use in developing countries contain the mercury-based preservative thiomersal.

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Thousands Deliver Grievances to Haitian Parliament | Haïti-Séisme-2 ans : Des milliers de manifestants s’adressent au Parlement

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Staff (gp jsr kft), AlterPresse | Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Thousands marched through Port-au-Prince on the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake to present to the Haitian Parliament a document that calls land reform, decentralization, social housing, and transparency in the management of public affairs, among other things. (English | French)

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Haitian CELAC Participants Warned to Avoid Conflict as Haiti Assumes ‘Zombie Presidency’ of OAS | Dirigeants haïtiens qui ont participé au sommet de la CELAC appelés ‘à éviter toute situation de conflit’ dans L’OEA

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff, AHP | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haitians leaders who participated in the CELAC summit in December 2011 have been warned by Haiti’s Foreign Ministry to behave themselves in the Organization of American States (OAS). (English | French)

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Gerard Fortune: Art Imbued With a Passion for Life, Nature, and the Gods

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

Gérard Fortune is one of Haiti’s most imaginative self-taught painters. He was born in 1925 in Petionville, Haiti. He was originally a houngan (Vodou priest) and pastry chef and did not start to paint until around 1980. His work has been exhibited the world over and is described in most books on Haitian art.

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Aid as a Trojan Horse: On the Anniversary of the Haitian Earthquake

avatarPosted on by January 30, 2021

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Long before the word sustainable became fashionable, before Henry David Thoreau noted that “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone,” there was Haiti.

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Haitians Emigrating to Brazil Undocumented

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

iBy Staff, Listín Diario | By Najla Passos, Carta Maior | Translated from Spanish and Portuguese by David Holmes Morris for lo-de-alla. Some 500 undocumented Haitian immigrants entered the Brazilian city of Brasileia, in the last three days of 2011. The illegal entry might have been dangerous and mediated by human traffickers. On Feb 2, 2012, during a visit to Haiti, Brazilian President Dilma Rousef said her country would grant Haitians 1,200 visas per year for the next five years. (English | Spanish | Portuguese)

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Caracol Haiti Industrial Park With Projected Adverse Environmental Impact | Caracol, un parc industriel d’Haïti Parc qui aurait un impact environnemental négatif

avatarPosted on by March 1, 2018

By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 6 of 7. The same week over 300 agricultural plots in Caracol, Haiti, were unexpectedly destroyed, the Haitian government signed an agreement with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, IDB, and Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading to convert the lands into an industrial park. This park will dump its wastes into a bay with extensive coraf reefs and one of the country’s last mangrove forests. (English | French)

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Presidency Appears Reluctant to Set Deadline for Reconstitution of Haitian Army | La présidence hésite à fixer d’échéance pour la reconstitution de l’armée

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Staff (rc), AlterPresse | Editorial comment and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. While Martelly talks politely about puting the idea of a new Haitian Armed Forces to various reviews, groups of bandits calling themselves Former Soldiers Demobilized are doing military training exercises throughout the country. (English | French)

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Haitian Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804

avatarPosted on by January 2, 2019

“Vow before me to live free and independent, and to prefer death to anything that will try to place you back in chains. Swear, finally, to pursue forever the traitors and enemies of your independence.” – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, January 1, 1804. In the present day: this means anyone who collaborates with foreign occupiers or even tolerates the presence of foreign soldiers on Haitian soil.

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Katia Cadet Sings Her New Song ‘A Mes Pieds’ | Katia Cadet chante sa nouvelle chanson ‘a mes pieds’

avatarPosted on by March 10, 2019

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Katia Cadet is a major talent who has come our way from Haiti via Montreal. She sings ‘A mes pieds,’ a lovely song that recommends–for those involved with a slick operator–giving him that final look at your beautiful back. Excellent start to a new year. (English | French)

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At Least 38 Haitian Migrants Drown Near Cuba, 87 Others Rescued | Au moins 38 migrants haïtiens périssent au large de Cuba, 87 autres secourus

avatarPosted on by December 22, 2018

By Staff, AlterPresse | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. After their boat sank off the coast of Cuba, 45 Haitian migrants drowned; 87 were rescued on Saturday, December 24, 2011 by the Cuban Coast Guard. The small boat is estimated to have carried over 160 passengers. (English | French)

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