Coffee grown in Haiti, roasted in The Woodlands How one local church is bringing fair trade to farmers in one of the world’s poorest countries. Published 01/26/2012 | By Bryan Shettig-Woodlandsonline THE WOODLANDS, Texas –– High up in the mountains of Haiti, farmers in the town of Marmelade work to grow coffee beans in...
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Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, a fact which an op/ed in today’s New York Times notes is an inevitable catchphrase in any article about the hapless country occupying the western third of Hispaniola. The op/ed, Haiti Can Be Rich Again, by Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jensen, both researchers at Duke...
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Café Xaragua imports coffee beans and sells them CBC News Posted: Jan 4, 2012 8:58 PM AT Last Updated: Jan 4, 2012 8:49 PM AT Robert Lehnert, CEO and co-founder of Café Xaragua, speaks with a coffee bean farmer in Haiti. (Courtesy of Café Xaragua) A 22-year-old Miramichi native is bringing the taste of...
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Mb.Com.PH MANILA, Philippines — The Republic of Haiti celebrates its 208th National Day today. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the western part of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago. Port-au-Prince is the country’s capital and largest city. The population of Haiti is around 9.7 million, 95 percent of which...
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Hydroworld.com PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 12/28/11 (PennWell) — Restoration of Haiti’s Peligre hydroelectric plant took a step closer toward becoming reality after the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the approval of a US$20 million grant for the project. The project will enable Haiti to restore and preserve Peligre’s original installed capacity of 54 MW by rehabilitating...
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Apparel imports into the US from Haiti soared by 46% in the first eight months of this year, thanks in part to tariff benefits under the US Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). In the Ninth Report to Congress on the Operation of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, the office of the US Trade Representative...
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Works from artists such as Laura Heyman, Jesse Darling, Andre Eugene, Peter Anderson, and Jean Herard Celeur from the biennale’s inaugural edition in 2009. In December 2009, a group of local and international artists presented at the first-ever biennial in the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince, mixing art with street culture in the cleverly-captioned “Ghetto...
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New research confirms that extreme weather and deforestation can cause earthquakes. Bryan Nelson: If you ever doubted that human action was capable of profoundly effecting the Earth’s ecology, consider this: Scientists now believe that our mismanagement of the environment is quite literally causing the Earth to shake. New research has confirmed a correlative link...
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Charlie Wright, thegrocer.co.uk Heineken has taken total control of Brasserie Nationale d’Haiti, the leading brewer on the troubled Caribbean nation. The Dutch giant previously held a 22.5% share in the company, known locally as Brana, but today confirmed it had upped its stake to 95%. “The Haitian beer market has shown solid year-on-year growth,...
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As business opportunities in post-earthquake Haiti yield enthusiasm and opportunity, the government commits to passing law to make country more business friendly. By JACQUELINE CHARLES Jcharles@miamiherald.com The Haitian government plans to push several critical laws in coming weeks aimed at making the country more business-friendly and lure investments, a government official told hundreds of...
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