EU Projects Environmentally, Socially Unsound | Ajustar y vigilar mejor los proyectos de la UE

avatarPosted on by February 24, 2018

By Bari Bates, IPS. Dozens of European Union-funded projects across several European countries are ‘environmentally or socially unsound’, according to an interactive map created by a joint effort between CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth Europe. Evidently, the EU has now turned on European protected habitats. In Haiti, for example, the EU has funded the Caracol Industrial Park.

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Act Up Against ACTA Saturday Feb 11th

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Staff, Access Now | YouTube | Haiti Chery. Protests against ACTA will take place worldwide on Saturday February 11, 2012. Over 1.75 million people have signed a petition against ACTA that is expected to get the endorsement of more than 2 million.

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Key Decisions and Directions From ALBA XI: ‘A Grand Summit!’

avatarPosted on by December 20, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | By Yaima Puig Meneses, Granma. Participants ratified Haiti’s participation as a permanent special invitee and agreed to hold the next summit of the ALBA Foreign Ministers in Jacmel, Haiti.

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No Cholera Death for One Year Where Cuban-Led Medical Teams Work

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff, Granma | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cuban-led medical teams reported an entire year without a death among cholera patients they treated in Haiti. Since the start of the epidemic, a combined approach of epidemiological surveillance and community education has resulted in a 3.6 times lower death rate for the Cuban-led medics than all other medical groups working in Haiti.

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Former Slave Jourdon Anderson Speaks from Beyond the Grave

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Jourdon Anderson, with commentary by Jonathan Brown, The Independent | Letters of Note. Humorous response from an emancipated slave to his former owner’s request to return to work on a Tennessee plantation after the U.S. Civil War.

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Haiti to Observe ALBA Summit in Venezuela | El presidente de Haití irá como observador a la cumbre de la ALBA

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By staff, Prensa Latina. Haiti will attend a Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA), to be held in Caracas on Sunday February 5th, merely as an observer country, contrary to earlier expectations that Haiti would join the organization. (English | Spanish)

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Warning: Haiti ‘Cholera Vaccination’ Campaign Will Involve AIDS Researchers | Avertissement: Des chercheurs sur le SIDA participeront à la ‘vaccination contre le choléra’ en Haiti

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Staff (jep kft gp), AlterPresse. According to Haitian Director General of the Department of Public Health and Population (MSPP), Gabriel Timothee, initial tests of a cholera vaccine will start in Haiti in February 2012 in disadvantaged areas of Port-au-Prince and the Plateau Central. Studies of the vaccination will be conducted in collaboration with Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health, PIH) and a center called Haitian Studies of Kaposi Syndrome and Opportunistic Infections (Gheskio). (English | French)

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Nicaraguan Youth Reclaim Their Country

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

Courtesy of Tortilla con Sal, You Tube | Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nicaragua and Haiti have shared the same history of repelling a U.S. occupation only to face the harder task of resisting the unpatriotic army the occupation left behind. Nicaraguans are reclaiming their country, with the youth leading the charge and being the living proofs that the smiles are well worth the process.

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Nicaragua’s Antidote to Violent Crime | El antídoto nicaragüense contra la inseguridad

avatarPosted on by February 21, 2018

By Danilo Valladares, IPS, with Jose Adan Silva. Crime rates are much lower in Nicaragua than in its northern neighbours El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, because Nicaragua follows a Cuban model of policing that is focused on community and trains its police to serve the society. (English | Spanish)

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Innocence Project on Offensive After Texas Tries to Suppress It Executed Innocent Man

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Staff, Innocence Project | Allan Turner, Houston Chronicle | Brandi Grissom, Texas Tribune | Haiti Chery. The Texas State Fire Marshal hurriedly resigned in Dec 2011. This follows protests against the State Attorney General’s July dismissal of a forensic panel that had ripped the methods used to convict Cameron Todd Willingham, a man Texas executed in 2004.

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A Case for Baby Doc, Sweet Micky, Wycleff, Sean, and Clintons Being FaceBook Friends | Baby Doc, Sweet Micky, Wycleff, Sean, and les Clinton seraient-ils des amis FaceBook?

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Today Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean ruled that former dictator Jean Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc to his friends) should not be tried for human rights violations but, rather, for corruption and the misappropriation of public funds. Every human rights organization is crying fowl and blaming the decision on “politics!” I blame it on Facebook friendships. (English | French)

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