Tag Archives: Corruption

Open Letter From Haitian Anesthesiologist Dr. Andre Morno | Lettre ouverte du Docteur André Morno, Anesthésiologiste

avatarPosted on by February 21, 2018

By André Morno, Le Nouvelliste | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “President Martelly’s Chief of Staff Mr. Thierry Mayard Paul came to tell me that the presidential security unit was concerned about my house’s location with respect to the President’s. To my surprise, he told me that I had to sell the house at a price pre-determined without my consent.” Dr. Morno. (English | French).

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Let Them Eat Sand | Un sucre mêlé au sable vendu sur le marché dominicain

avatarPosted on by December 19, 2018

By Staff, AHP | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Dominican National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Proconsumidor) has sounded the alarm against consuming “Canaria” sugar imported from Brazil into the Dominican Republic (DR) by Casa SRL Chepe: a product marketed for two months in the DR and Haiti. (English | French)

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Poor Children as Big Pharma’s Lab Rats

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

By K. S. Harikrishnan, IPS | Staff, Rediff Business. American pharmaceutical companies, taking advantage of a Congressional provision called The Pediatric Exclusivity Provision, have been carrying out clinical trials in poor and developing countries where the drugs might never be available.

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Disaster Capitalism Brazilian Style in Haiti

avatarPosted on by January 3, 2019

By Yvon Janvier, Le Matin | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Brazilian company Construtora OAS Ltd unilaterally stopped ongoing work on 43 miles of National Road 7 in southern Haiti and abruptly cut short its contracts with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Interamerican Development Bank (IDB).

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Government Postpones School Year One Month | Le pouvoir repousse la rentrée scolaire au 1er octobre

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff (spp), Radio Kiskeya | By Stephen Ralph Henry, AlterPresse. Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haitian PM Laurent Lamothe said Friday, August 3, 2012, during a working session in the Parliament, that the new school year originally set to start on September 3 would be postponed until October 1 because of economic difficulties. Parents and teachers’ organizations say they were not consulted. (English | French)

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Canada’s Foreign Aid Minister Swap in Haiti

avatarPosted on by December 14, 2018

By Staff, Defend Haiti | Meagan Fitzpatrick and Staff, CBC News Online | Sheila Dabu Nonato, National Post. Canada Foreign Aid Minister Bev Oda — the woman responsible for the relocation of hundreds of thousands from the tent camps on Champs de Mars, Port-au-Prince, Haiti — has resigned. She was replaced by Julian Fantino, a former policeman risen to the ranks of police chief, Member of Parliament, and Defense Minister. Mr. Fantino has been followed in every political post by allegations of corruption.

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Haiti’s Homeless | ‘Martelly ne peut pas détruire des maisons qu’il n’a pas construites’

avatarPosted on by December 22, 2018

By Staff (WJL), HPN | Staff, Nouvel Observateur via RadioTV Caraibes | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Residents from the Jalousie neighborhood of Petion-Ville took to the streets Thursday, July 12, 2012 to call for a halt to the measures from Haiti’s Ministry of the Environment to demolish thousands of their homes. “It’s not right that a person should be offered only $465 after his house is demolished,” said a protestor. (English | French)

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Mexican Students Occupy Plaza, Present Evidence of Fraud

avatarPosted on by March 5, 2019

By Kenneth Thomas, OpEd News. Mexico City’s #yosoy132 student movement erected tents and a large under-tent field headquarters in the country’s grand plaza. At around 2:30 p.m., on July 2, 2012, their intelligence team received and posted evidence of ballot fraud in the previous day’s election.

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Top Five Reasons Why Caracol Industrial Park is Disastrous for Haiti

avatarPosted on by December 22, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Caracol Bay area was slated to be a World Heritage Site and Marine Park because of its breathtaking barrier reef, mangroves, and migratory birds. The area is also the site of archaeological finds including Guacanagaric, one of the largest and most complete Taino Indian villages. The area has been converted into the massive Caracol Industrial Park (or Free-Trade zone, FTZ) that is expected to pollute the Trou du Nord River and the bay and get served by a deep-water port.

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U.S. and Dominican Republic Killing Haitian Organic Egg, Poultry Production | L’importation massive d’œufs et de volailles inquiète les productrices et producteurs au Plateau Central

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Ronel Odatte (kft and rc), AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Small farmers from Haiti’s Central Plateau are losing their livelihood due to a massive influx of eggs and poultry from abroad; likewise farmers of freshwater fish from the same region are being driven to bankruptcy by a massive and incessant influx of fish from the Dominican Republic and U.S. (English | French)

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Verifiable-Vote Elections

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The only one who may be absolutely trusted to defend a voter’s right is the voter. Demand nothing. A demand assumes good faith from those in power. The reason why the world’s elites call for elections here, there, everywhere, today without trepidation is because, to them, democracy has been licked. It will remain so until votes are verifiable.

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Withdraw UNASUR’s UN Troops from Haiti!

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff (sgl/emw/mgt/jrr) Prensa Latina | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. At a meeting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Member countries discussed a timetable for South America’s withdrawal from MINUSTAH. But the plan so far looks more like one for a gradual replacement of Latin American troops with Asian and African troops.

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Corruption by ‘Peacekeeping’: The Lure of Foreign Exchange

avatarPosted on by December 20, 2018

By Staff, AsiaOne | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Bangladeshi UN “peacekeepers” have sent home nearly $1.24 billion during the past three years. In 2010 Bangladesh sent its first female MINUSTAH contingent, a group of 110, to Haiti.

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A Little Dictatorship to Make the Band March in Time | Une petite dictature pour améliorer la fanfare militaire

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Frantz Duval and Robenson Geffrard, Le Nouvelliste | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Satisfied with his achievements during his first year, but frustrated about red tape that has his palace band without instruments, Michel Martelly announced that his team has started to think about an emergency law. (English | French)

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