By Garry Pierre-Pierre Democracy it is said is a messy thing. The United States is finding out how untidy it…
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Haiti Should Look to U.S Political Opposition as a Model
However, Haiti appears to be unsure of the role of the opposition, and our zero sum mentality into everything has been the hallmark of the country’s politics. Last Tuesday’s elections in the U.S can be used as a roadmap by Haitian politicians on how to be a member of the opposition party.
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An Ode To Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s Liberator
In its 2008 carnival song Defile, the group RAM, paid homage to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s chief liberator. “We celebrate Dessalines’…
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Who Is Behind PetroCaribeChallenge Movement
By Garry Pierre-Pierre A few months after Jean Bertrand Aristide was ousted as president of Haiti following a bloody coup…
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Haiti: Jean Henry Ceant Should Take PetroCaribe Challenge Head On
Jean Henry Ceant By Garry Pierre-Pierre Over the weekend, the Haitian parliament voted overwhelmingly for Jean Henry Ceant to lead…
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Jovenel Moise Owes Haitians Answers on Missing Petrocaribe Funds
Things are so bad for the average Haitian that they are willing to live anywhere, no matter how dehumanizing they may find their lives in their new land. Their reasoning is that things are worse for them in their homeland. That’s sad and I am sure it rips your heart to know that as president you are ruling over a people who would rather be anywhere but home.
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U20 Women Team Unites Haitians and Creates Economic Opportunity
Grenadières By Garry Pierre-Pierre SAINT MALO, France – The young Haitian team fought valiantly in all of its three group…
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U.S. Has long History of Meddling in Haiti Democratic Efforts
U.S. knows that democracy is messy and precarious, it should help struggling democracies like Haiti, not undermine it.
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Social Unrest Is Tied to Leaders Incompetence
Haiti is known as a “black” country, because more than 90 percent of the population is of African ancestry. But at home, the lighter your skin, the higher social and by extension economic privilege you enjoy. The business class is made up largely of Haitians of Arab ancestry. There is a tiny bit of others who traced the lightness of their skin to the European presence in Haiti before 1804, when they left following the successful slave revolt for independence. Combined, they make up less than half a percent of the population. Dark-skinned Haitians are discriminated against sometimes subtly and at times overtly. In short Haiti resembles Apartheid South Africa.
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Haiti: Can Jovenel Moise Rise to the Challenge?
Last week violence unseen in more than a decade erupted Port-au-Prince, the capital and other cities across the nation.
The first and obvious explanation for the violence is that a steep government mandated rise in the price of oil and transportation was the spark that created this explosion. While I agree that increase was what ignited this violence, to focus on it as the sole reason left the government off the hook.