By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Long before the word sustainable became fashionable, before Henry David Thoreau noted that “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone,” there was Haiti.
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 6 of 7. The same week over 300 agricultural plots in Caracol, Haiti, were unexpectedly destroyed, the Haitian government signed an agreement with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, IDB, and Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading to convert the lands into an industrial park. This park will dump its wastes into a bay with extensive coraf reefs and one of the country’s last mangrove forests. (English | French)
“Vow before me to live free and independent, and to prefer death to anything that will try to place you back in chains. Swear, finally, to pursue forever the traitors and enemies of your independence.” – Jean-Jacques Dessalines, January 1, 1804. In the present day: this means anyone who collaborates with foreign occupiers or even tolerates the presence of foreign soldiers on Haitian soil.
Continue reading →By Staff, Essortment | Edited by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Christmas’ origins can be traced back to winter solstice celebrations like the Babylonian Feast of the Son of Isis, Roman Saturnalia, and birthday of Pagan sun god Mithras. In 350 Pope Julius I picked Mithras’ December 25 birthday as the date to celebrate Christ’s birth, although he was probably born in September. Hearty celebrations of the rebirth of the unconquered Sun!
Continue reading →By Roger Annis and Jorge Balseiro Estevez, Haiti Liberté | CHAN | Haiti Chery translation. “The Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade has treated more than 18 million cases in Haiti. We have performed 304,577 surgeries and vaccinated 1,501,076 people. We estimate the number of lives we have saved is 284,239.”- Dr. Balseiro Estevez. Gracias a Cuba! (English | French)
Continue reading →By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (1990), publishers Gollancz (UK), Workman (US) | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Excerpt from Good Omens: a prescient and hilarious book about the coming end times. This excerpt describes being pulled over by an extraterrestrial.
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Libre | Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Canada and the U.S. are itching to build prisons in Haiti, although Haiti has the lowest per-capita number of inmates in the Caribbean, and 70 percent of those incarcerated have never been tried. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As the spirit of the Enlightenment inflamed everyone, the rebellious Haitian slaves led by Toussaint L’Ouverture would prove to be those most faithful to the Enlightenment ideals.
Continue reading →By Andrew Leonard, Salon. “Half the workers of the world work in jobs that are off the books… The combined economic activity of these 1.8 billion workers adds up to $10 trillion. If this informal economy were squeezed into a single political structure, it would be the second largest economy in the world,” Robert Neuwirth writes in Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy.
Continue reading →Courtesy of H. Montas | Ángel M. Nieves-Rivera, Inoculum | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A little research into the mycology of the island of Hispaniola discovered that the type of mushroom in diri ak djondjon is probably Psathyrella coprinoceps. The same superb scientific article provides two delicious recipes! Bon appetit!
Continue reading →By Michaëlle Desrosiers and Franck Seguy, A l’Encontre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Translated by Diaro Octubre. MINUSTAH almost exclusively attacks those who are most despised, humbled, and impoverished. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Staff, National Geographic. While looking through Haiti’s forests, scientists rediscovered the critically endangered La Hotte glanded frog and half a dozen Haitian frog species that had not been seen for almost 20 years and occur nowhere else.
Continue reading →By Richard Manning, Harper’s. The total amount of plant mass created by Earth per year is called the planet’s primary productivity. We humans, a single species among millions, consume about 40 percent of Earth’s primary productivity. We, six billion, have simply stolen the food: the rich among us a lot more than the rest. (English | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Staff, AHP | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Haitian Senate Public Works Committee says that the Clinton-led Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) claims to have financed for the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communication, had actually been funded by donors like the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank , before the IHRC was even formed. (English | French)
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