Top: Cap-Haitien Mayor Yvrose Pierre during the laying of the first stone ceremony for the kickoff of a waste management project in the city on Dec. 11, 2023. Photo credit: Cap-Haitien's Town Hall; bottom: Trash scattered in a Cap-Haitien street after a rainfall in October 2023. Onz Chery/The Haitian Times

CAP-HAITIEN — Five years after receiving approval for a $34.8 million waste clean-up project, Cap-Haitien officials kicked off the massive effort on Monday with a ceremony to lay the first stone. 

“The success of the project will depend on the participation of the entire community, thus creating synergy between the government, the private sector and civil society,” Cap-Haitien Mayor Yvrose Pierre said during the ceremony, according to a town hall press release.

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Onz Chery is a Haiti correspondent for The Haitian Times. Chery started his journalism career as a City College of New York student with The Campus. He later wrote for First Touch, local soccer leagues in New York and Elite Sports New York before joining The Haitian Times in 2019.