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Haitian Flag Day The annual budget of Haiti stood at 77.6 billion gourdes/38.56gdes, or about $2,012,448,133.00.
If we capitalize the amount of the ransom of independence that France forced the Haitian
government to pay, we end up with a sum of $21,685,136,000.00 capitalized for fiscal year end
2003. If you take this value divided by the current annual budget of Haiti ($21,685,136,000.00 /
$2,012,448,133.00), we get a value equal to the total financing of the program of René Préval’s
government for a period o...
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 7:06pm PDT
How secure in our food supply? Conditions cry out for a national food policy, one that recognizes the modern reality of unstable world food supplies in a finite world under increasing human pressure. We're in a different world now. We need food for our bellies, not our gas habitat. It seems to take chaos before government reacts....
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 6:55am PDT
WNU #946: US Blamed in Reporter's Death in Haiti The family now believes that Ortega and his translator had been in a courtyard contacting the US ambassador to get medical attention for a wounded US reporter. Ortega was shot as he and his translator left the courtyard and headed for the street. Witnesses reported that a soldier in a passing "Hummer"--a US military vehicle--fired the shot, even though there was no sign that the soldiers were in danger....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 8:01pm PDT
Hunger in Abundance The price explosion has nothing to do with a shortage in grain. After the quasi-collapse of the US financial markets, international investors have floated a considerable part of their funds in raw material- and food branches. Corn has climbed 66 percent since last fall and rice has become 75 percent more expensive in the past ten months....
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2008 5:06am PDT
The View from Haiti It's the middle of the day; the sun is up, the heat rising in Port au Prince, the capitol of Haiti. Thousands of young men and women fill the streets, lining up, moving from place to place. They are looking for work, any work; work that might pay them enough to eat for hunger is on the march here. Garbage is carefully sifted for whatever food might be left. Young babies wail in frustration, seeking milk from a mother to anemic to produce it....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 8:27pm PDT
Back From Haiti, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls for Emergency Food Aid to a Starving Nation Devastated by Longtime U.S.-Led Interfe Thursday, May 1, 2008 :Reverend Jesse Jackson has just returned from Haiti, where the World Food Program is warning of a "major crisis" if international donors fail to help feed Haiti's poor. Prices of rice, beans and cooking oil, have doubled in the past few months. The soaring food prices have had a devastating effect -- two-thirds of Haitians live on less than a dollar a day and 47 percent are undernourished. We speak to Rev. Jackson about the U.S. responsibility to feed a nation long targ...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 8:10am PDT
Global Food Crisis: The Fury of the Poor What we are beginning to face is not just an acute bottleneck, but a worldwide, fundamental food crisis. The crisis is so dire that it is obliterating any progress made in recent years in fighting disease and starvation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 3:48am PDT
The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots Thursday, April 24, 2008 :As people around the world continue to protest the soaring prices of basic food items, the World Food Program has described the crisis as a silent tsunami. The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization blamed the current global food crisis on ?inappropriate? policy decisions over the past two decades. Nowhere is this more clear than in Haiti, where hungry people are rioting in the streets because they cannot afford to buy rice. Haiti imports most of its rice from...
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 7:34am PDT
At least 14 Haitian migrants drowned off the coast of the Bahamas Wednesday, April 23, 2008 :The US Coast Guard continued searching Tuesday for as many as 10 Haitian migrants still missing in the waters northwest of Nassau, Bahamas after an incident Saturday in which a boat capsized leaving 14 migrants dead. The coast guard and Bahamian rescuers pulled three survivors from the water on Monday, two of whom were Haitian, while the third was Honduran....
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 7:25am PDT
Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" - Part II Part II of Hallward's superb book on Haiti....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2008 1:18pm PDT
THE UN TROOPS FROM NIGERIA MUST BE REMOVED FROM HAITI IMMEDIATELY THE CHIMERISATION AND VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE UNITED NATIONS TROOPS IN HAITI, A PHENOMENON TO QUELL QUICKLY IN ORDER TO AVOID AN INSURRECTION AGAINST THE UN TROOPS IN HAITI
THE UN TROOPS FROM NIGERIA MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN HAITI IMMEDIATELY.
RESTITUTION AND REPARATION WITHIN ONE WEEK FOR THE STREET VENDORS NEAR THE CATHEDRAL TO AVOID MORE HAITIANS DESCENT INTO HUNGER AND DESPAIR....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 1:29pm PDT
Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" - Part I A superb book on recent Haitian history....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 12:20pm PDT
Haitians storm president's palace Wednesday, April 9, 2008 : Protesters demand leader step down over prices as UN pledges to support government....
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 8:42am PDT
Haiti: Thousands protest over growing hunger Saturday, April 5, 2008 :Thousands of Haitians took to the streets Thursday to protest against soaring food prices and growing hunger in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. In Les Cayes, Haiti’s third-largest city, over 5,000 people demonstrated, chanting slogans denouncing President Rene Preval and shouting “Down with the high cost of living!” According to local reports from the southern peninsula city, the protesters stormed and attempted to burn the local offices of the UN Mission fo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 9:24am PDT
Haiti: Growing Concern Among Poor Over Hunger and Rural Economy Amongst the poor in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, the lack of affordable food is becoming a mounting problem. On tap-taps, colorfully decorated automobiles used for transportation by the poor, one can hear this discussion daily. Conversations on the tap-taps are referred to as "Radio thirty two"....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 5:31pm PDT
Haiti: Senator Rudolph Boulos Resigns, The Assembly Discharges Him Translation by HaitiAnalysis.com
Port-au-Prince, March 18, 2008 (AHP) Senator Rudolph Henry Boulos handed out his resignation following the presentation of the report of the Senatorial Commission in charge of investigating on the nationality of senators.
The 1st senator of the Northeast region handed out his resignation, even before the Assembly took a decision....
Posted: Tue, Mar 25, 2008 5:18pm PDT
2/29 Global Day of Action for Haiti- 56 actions in 47 cities on 4 continents (if you go to any of these events, please post a report! and remind organizers to post to this site or their events will be small)
See you at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 29th, 2008 - at the Marine Recruiting Station in Berkeley!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 12:33pm PST
On Obama-mania The country is going Obama. Obama-mania is unnerving...
Posted: Mon, Feb 11, 2008 7:29pm PST
Haiti: Minister of Agriculture Reiterates Commitment to Increasing National Production Translation by HaitiAnalysis.com...
Posted: Mon, Jan 7, 2008 12:33pm PST
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