Category: Ag/Farming
A Glimpse Of An Everyday Struggle Among Haiti’s Health Care Workers
Peter Mellgard Associate Editor, The WorldPost JEAN DENIS, Haiti — At the health clinic here, three hours northwest of Port-au-Prince, a crowd of mostly women…
$4M investment in the garment sector
International Finance Corporation, (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is investing $4 million to help The Willbes Haitian S.A., a subsidiary of South…
ALL IN THE FAMILY AS MARTELLY SENDS KIKO TO CLAUDIA – SOPHIA’S SISTER’S HOUSE – TO COLLECT $9,000,000 FROM MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE. HE ONLY BROUGHT $600,000 AND KIKO ALMOST BEAT HIM TO DEATH!! SOME SAY THEY SKIMMED $20,000,000 FROM CUSTOMS AND PORT FACILITY IN MAY.
July 7, 2015 Martelly brother-in-law meets Minister of Agriculture, Fresner Dorcin at private residence of Claudia St. Remy-Champagne, Kiko’s sister. Seems as though President Martelly…
Vaccines against dengue in the offing
In a finding that could lead to the first effective therapies and vaccines against dengue, scientists have determined the structure of a human antibody which…
Port-Au-Prince Climate & Temperature
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti is at 18°22’N, 72°19’W, 41 m (135 ft). See map. Port-Au-Prince has a tropical wet and dry/ savanna climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: Aw) with…
Parched Caribbean Faces Widespread Drought, Water Shortages
By DANICA COTO Associated Press The worst drought in five years is creeping across the Caribbean, prompting officials around the region to brace for a…
DOMINICANS SEND DELEGATION TO MEET WITH GOVERNMENT OF HAITI – HAITIANS REFUSE TO RECEIVE THEM
June 24, 2015 The criminal fiasco aimed at deporting some 300,000 Haitians is starting to backfire on the Dominican Republic, but, no matter what, there…
Dominicans of Haitian Descent Cast Into Legal Limbo by Court-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
Ny Times By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — For generations, people of Haitian descent have been an inextricable part of life here,…
SHAMEFUL – Must see and read Haitian-Truth.org to understand what is going on in the Islands of Haiti/Dominican Republic ! ALERTING THE WORLD’s PUBLIC OPINION !
What crime has he committed to deserve such treatment in the Dominican Republic? This injustice that’s going on Republic Dominican against the Haitians is criminal….
Stateless and now homeless: Despair on Haiti border-Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By Amelie Baron AFP Fonds Parisien (Haiti) (AFP) – Mileyda Benacio is 19 years old, seven months pregnant and effectively stateless — expelled from the…
Dominican Republic to be ‘Socially Cleaned’ in two days-Added Commentary By Haitian-Truth
In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights….
New anti-malaria drug developed at Dundee University
BBC: Scientists said new malaria drugs are “urgently needed” as parasites develop resistance to current ones Researchers at Dundee University have discovered a new compound…
A Community in Haiti Speaks Out
Many of us working with the Clinton Foundation in Haiti are feeling misrepresented at best, and completely ignored at worst… but before launching my rant…
Saving coffee from extinction
By Julian Siddle and Vibeke VenemaBBC World Service Two billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day and 25 million families rely…
With the “1,000,000 Trees for Haiti” campaign we promise to plant a tree for every KLERE’M unit distributed
Stellar Haiti is happy to be a part of this call to action, this project will help restore Haiti’s plant population, Stellar and its partners,…
Haiti President Sees No End for Venezuela Oil Aid Even Amid Drop
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly said he sees no sign Venezuela’s shipments of subsidized oil to Caribbean and Central American nations will end, and that his…
2.8M Euros for 7 border projects
Friday to Anse-à-Pitre, in the framework of the second meeting of the Committee for Coordination and Project Monitoring of Environmental Action (CCSAE), the Ministry of…
Africa seed index raises bigger yield hopes for farmers
By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News Improving smallholder farmers’ access to modern seed varieties is essential to tackle food security concerns An initiative has…
Revitalizing Lime Production in Haiti
The Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) is growing lime trees as part of an initiative in which the Clinton Foundation has brought partners together to revitalize…