Pedestrians along Route de Delmas in Port-au-Prince, unadorned this year due to Haiti’s crises. Photo by Marvens Compère for The Haitian Times
Pedestrians along Route de Delmas in Port-au-Prince, unadorned this year due to Haiti’s crises. Photo by Marvens Compère for The Haitian Times

PORT-AU-PRINCE — On a recent December day, Anette, a vendor, sat on a high chair in the local market in Route de Frères, looking over the provisions displayed on a table, while calling out to customers to buy her food. 

But she did so on alert and with no intention of staying out too long because “lari à twò sispèk pou mwen,” meaning the streets are unsafe.

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Murdith Joseph is a social worker and journalist. She studied at the State University of Haiti and Maurice Communication. She first worked as a journalist presenter and reporter for Radio Sans Fin (RSF) then as a journalist reporter for Radio tele pacific and writting for the daily Le National. Today she joined the Haitian Times team and covers the news in Port-Au-Prince-Haiti.