August 2018

haitiantimes.com/2018/08/30/meet-haitis-founding-father-whose-black-revolution-was-too-radical-for-thomas-jefferson/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=parliamentary_committee_prop… Meet Haiti’s founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson Crowds cheered as local lawmakers on August 18 unveiled a street sign showing that Rogers Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn would now be called Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard, after a Haitian slave turned revolutionary general. When Dessalines declared Haiti’s independence […]

Just one more reason we need your help. By Bianca Silva Fed up with corruption and lack of transparency, people inside and outside Haiti are turning to Twitter to ask the question “Where’s the money?” using the hashtag #PetroCaribeChallenge. The social media campaign follows an investigative report released by the Haitian senate commission in late

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In its rural areas, where 70% of the population lives, there is no access to medical care or hospitals or even prenatal vitamins, he says. There are no IV tubes, no ventilators, no electricity. The medical clinics that do exist are often infested with flies, the floors are just dirt and mud. And if you