By Kim Ives Haiti Chery Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 140 mph, slammed into Haiti’s southern peninsula in the early morning hours of Tuesday, October 4, 2016, leaving a swath of ripped off roofs, stripped … Continue reading →
Music by Don Kato, Boukman Eksperyans, Vwadezil | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nearly every Haitian Carnival 2012 song is an indictment of the current state of affairs: corruption, cholera, rapes, MINUSTAH. We’re not partying to forget but to remember. (songs in Kreyol)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As of October 28, 2010, over 300 Haitians have died and over 4,000 have fallen ill of cholera. The press immediately blamed “poor sanitation in the camps” for the outbreak, although the outbreak began in the pristine small towns of St. Marc and Mirebalais that had not suffered any earthquake damage.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A wealthy man in the Ganthier area is accused of expropriating over 9,000 acres of land coveted by various NGOs and selling the majority of this land to high-level members of the police force, former ministers, a former representative of Ganthier in Haiti’s parliament, and the wife of the current Minister.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Things haven’t cooled down in Haiti. Quite the contrary. They’re just starting to simmer.
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