By Zadie Neufville, IPS | Haiti Chery. News of Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo’s newest attraction shocked Jamaican authorities. The unlikely stars: a flock of 45 endangered Jamaican Amazon parrots, hatched from eggs smuggled from the island in rum-cake boxes.
Continue reading →By Marianne Cesar, in A Taste of Haiti, Caribbean Living | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nearly every Latin America and Caribbean country boasts of a delicious cornmeal drink. Ours in Haiti is called Akasan. It is a legacy from our Taino ancestors.
Continue reading →Interview of Cuban climate expert Ramón Pichs by Patricia Grogg. Pichs warns that the environmental vulnerability of Caribbean countries is aggravated by the fragility of their economies. ALBA initiatives are underway to improve the response to climate change phenomena and take measures to protect areas such as agriculture and coastlines. These and national efforts will be complemented by inputs from organizations like Caricom and CELAC. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Mario Osava, IPS. There are nearly 700 Haitians in Porto Velho, a Brazilian city of 436,000. The Santo Antonio hydroelectric plant has hired 100 Haitians to work in construction of a dam. Odebrecht has hired 42 Haitians to help build Teles Pires, another hydroelectric dam 800 km east of Porto Velho; 40 to work on a shipyard building submarines in Itaguaí near Rio de Janeiro, and 22 for a sugar plant in the central state of Goiás. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff (kft, rc), AlterPresse. A study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) suggests that Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake might represent the start of a new seismic cycle for the Enriquillo fault system, and the island might suffer strong earthquakes in coming years (English | French).
Continue reading →By Staff, SPX via Terra Daily | Photos and video, Univ. Southampton and NOC | Haiti Chery. The world’s deepest undersea volcanic vent is the Cayman Trough, about 3 miles below the Cayman islands in the Caribbean. Springs, probably hotter than 450°C, shoot mineral-laden water more than 0.6 mile up into the sea. Throngs of shrimps and sea anemones live around the vents.
Continue reading →By Patricia Grogg, IPS | Anna Ramdass, Trinidad Express. President Raúl Castro recently traveled to Trinidad and Tobago to participate in the 4th Cuba-CARICOM summit. CARICOM chairman Dr Denzil Douglas has since called on the U.S. to put an immediate end to the trade embargo against Cuba. Cuba maintains diplomatic ties with CARICOM’s 14 members, including Haiti. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Cuba Debate | CCS | Translated to English by Haiti Chery. CELAC is made up of 13 member nations from the Caribbean, 13 from South America, 6 from Central America, and 1 from the southern part of North America, whose leaders have agreed to promote an organization that will form a block in addressing the world’s challenges. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Jose Pavero and others, In: Source Book of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augmentation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rainwater harvesting is not used in Haiti, but over half a million people in the Caribbean get at least some of their water by this method. Rain-catchment systems are easy to build and operate and cost little to run.
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 →First English translation of complete lyrics by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Original Creole lyrics written by Oswald Durand, courtesy of Gage Averill | Music by Michel Mauleart Monton | Sung by Martha Jean-Claude | History by Louis J. Auguste, M.D., Pikliz. Osward Durand’s Choucoune was considered to be the best poem in kreyol from the moment it appeared in print. About 10 years later, it was put to music by Michel Mauleart Monton. (Kreyol | English)
Continue reading →A Poem by Derek Walcott. Derek Walcott is a writer and painter from St. Lucia. He was born in 1930. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. This poem is from his latest volume of poetry, titled White Egrets (2010).
Continue reading →By Bill Van Auken, WSWS. Michel Martelly, the ex-Kompa singer who cast himself as a political outsider and champion of “change,” was named Monday as the winner of the second round of Haiti’s presidential election with 67.57 percent of the votes cast and a turnout of about 25 percent.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Hurricane Tomas swept through the Grande Anse region of Haiti last weekend, destroying over 1,000 homes and killing more than 30 people. I would challenge readers to find the words Grande Anse in any English-language news of Haiti.
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