Haiti
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Reasons to Have Hope in Haiti, One By One
More than most countries, Haiti seems to be defined by its statistics: 80% of the population living below the poverty line; the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; 316,000 killed in the 2010 earthquake; 52.9% literacy rate; the average Haitian earns $1,300 per year. We could go on. On numbers alone, one is tempted to think of Haiti as a…
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US launches project to boost farmer incomes, promote local organizations in Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a project to boost farmer incomes and promote local organizations in northern Haiti. USAID said the five-year “Feed the Future North (FTFN)” project, is supported by “Feed the Future”, the US government’s global hunger and food security initiative. It said the new FTFN is…
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World Bank gives Haiti US$20 million to tidy public records
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – THE World Bank has given US$20 million to Haiti for cleaning up its public resources and making them more transparent. The grant will help Haiti improve public financial management, procurement practices and performance of the national electrical company. It will also create a tracking system to monitor budgets and a single treasury account to manage funds. The…
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Haiti receives US$15 million policy-based grant from IDB
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has furnished a US$15 million grant to Haiti to support policy, legal and institutional reforms in the agricultural sector. The Washington-based financial institution said farming plays a “fundamental role in the Haitian economy,” accounting for around half of the country’s jobs and almost one quarter of national income. “The new grant is…
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Coast Guard: South Florida relatives fueling Haitian migrant smuggling
Family members in South Florida are possibly behind a dangerous new trend in the Caribbean: the smuggling of undocumented Haitian immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a senior Coast Guard official said Wednesday. “The new thing that’s happening is in the Mona Passage between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and it’s being fueled, we think, by money…
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Haiti receives US$15 million policy-based grant from IDB
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has furnished a US$15 million grant to Haiti to support policy, legal and institutional reforms in the agricultural sector. The Washington-based financial institution said farming plays a “fundamental role in the Haitian economy,” accounting for around half of the country’s jobs and almost one quarter of national income. “The new grant is…
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Haiti reports first suspected H1N1 death in 2013
Haiti reported on Monday its first suspected death this year from H1N1 virus, reports reaching here said. The victim was from the small community of Nan Bannann in the southern city of Belle-Ansecity, 110 km southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, the reports said. As local government said, the victim died at a hospital in Thiotte, 65 km east of the…
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Dominican, Haiti governments square off on poultry ban
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican government Monday night called Haiti’s proposal to continue banning Dominican poultry products and allow only meats, “totally unacceptable,” after a four hour meeting of officials from both countries failed to solve the one-week standoff. After the meeting, Foreign minister Carlos Morales said president Danilo Medina was told “in a very clear, very transparent and quite frankly,…
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Giving water — the gift of life in Haiti
CARREFOUR, Haiti — The water inspectors were negotiating with an irate homeowner over her illegal hookup when a neighbor signaled he wanted to talk. “I would like to know how I can get water access,” physician Cyprien Jean-Jonas said from inside his one-room clinic. Steps from Jean-Jonas’s front door was an underground well. And while many of his neighbors in…
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IMF predicts decline in economic growth for Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the yearly economic growth for Haiti in 2013 will be limited to 3.4 per cent and blamed a weak recovery of agricultural production for the situation. The Washington-based financial institution Wednesday said that one of its missions had ended a one week visit to Haiti to review the…
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