Clinton and Associates’ For-Profit University

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Education is the latest public commons that is being turned into a commodity by a group of the world’s arrivistes, including Douglas Becker, … Continue reading →

Haitian People: Let Us Recover Our Dignity

By Michel-Ange Cadet Haiti Chery Translated from the French by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery Several Haitian cities rose up under strong tension in December 2010. The sky was black with smoke. The burning tires, the deafening noise of protesters in … Continue reading →

Peuple Haitien: Retrouvons Notre Dignité

Par Michel-Ange Cadet Haiti Chery Plusieurs villes de la République d’Haïti se levaient sous fortes tensions en décembre 2010. Le ciel de certaines villes était noir de fumée. Des pneus brûlaient, des bruits assourdissants de manifestants dans un commun refrain de protestations … Continue reading →

Haiti: Enough Is Enough, Bring on the Revolution!

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Ask Haitians on the street why they have put their wiry bodies in the paths of the bullets and tear-gas canisters of Haiti’s various mercenary forces, foreign and domestic, and they will tell you it … Continue reading →

Homage to My Mothers: Restavek, Vodou, and Haiti’s Stolen Children

By Dady Chery Haiti Chery “There are no orphans in Haiti!” After a long silence at the other end of the line, my friend Jordan murmurs: “Come again?” He must be thinking I lost my senses. I realize how I … Continue reading →

‘Tezen Nan Dlo’: An Ecological Folk Tale from Haiti | Fisgados pela Vida: Lenda Folclórica Ecológica do Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “A long time ago, in a thatched house snuggled in a valley between the flamboyant-covered hills of Haiti, there lived a girl whose greatest ambition was to bring home the cleanest water in all the world….” (English | Portuguese)

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Haiti: Creole Spoken, Creole Understood

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Creole was certainly the tongue spoken at the 1791 Bwa Cayiman Vodou ceremony that launched the Haitian Revolution. Nevertheless, it was French that served as the text of Haiti’s Independence Declaration and as the country’s only official language until 1987. Why?

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Mountains Behind Protests

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s most populous cities erupted in protest in early September, and some areas remain more or less in a state of continuous protest against human rights abuses, soaring food prices, 80 per cent unemployment, crashing agriculture, government corruption and racism, and many other severe political and economic ills.

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With MINUSTAH Up for Renewal, ‘Legal Bandits’ on Rampage

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Dr. Serge L. Bernard, Professor and Vice-Chair of the board of directors of the University of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was shot dead by five gunmen on motorcycles around midday on Friday August 31, 2012, within sight of police. Dr. Bernard is the latest victim of the traditional Spring-to-October insecurity that has preceded the renewal of MINUSTAH’s mandate every year since 2005.

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

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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Medical School of Dr. Aristide Foundation University, Academic Year 2012-2013 | Inscriptions pour une nouvelle promotion à la faculté de médecine de l’Université de la Fondation Docteur Aristide:

By Staff, AHP | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Medical School of the Dr. Aristide Foundation University (UNIFA), in Tabarre, near Port-au-Prince, opened its enrollment on Wednesday August 1 for academic year 2012-2013. The University’s Director, Dr. Peter Gaetchen announced that registration will run until August 14, and the entrance examination will be held on August 20. (English | French)

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Doctors of the World, from Cuba to Haiti

By Amelia Duarte de la Rosa, Granma | YouTube. Twenty-two new graduates from Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) arrived in Haiti on an internationalist mission. They will work alongside the Cuban Medical Brigade to provide medical attention and preventive and rehabilitation services for Haitians, while specializing in comprehensive general medicine.

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

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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Workers and Students Beat University-Funded Hotel-Flipping Firm

By David Moberg, In These Times. Overcoming the classic town-gown social divide, students at various ivy-league universities have formed labor-action movements to win major victories for hotel workers in their fight against appalling working conditions at university-financed hotels.

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