Haitians need financial education to avoid scams | Letter to the editor
Opinion letter responding to “Recent fraud cases in US affecting Haitian communities” It’s so sad to read all these fraud allegations about my Haitian people. I believe our leaders need to build the community with better resources about finances, because many people do not understand money, how it works or finances. Maybe if there’s a…
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Where Haiti’s sorry lot of leaders went wrong after Duvalier
I was a semester away from graduating from college when the news broke that Jean Claude Duvalier had fled in exile after more than 15 years in power. The day was February 7, 1986. It was a momentous occasion that most Haitian émigrés had dreamed of, but never imagined would…
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Haitians in America: Time to set aside little groups to form institutions | Opinion
In 1996, the National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR) held a weekend summit on the state of the community at New York University. The gathering brought together the luminaries of the community at that time. One moment that remained seared in my mind is of Netlyn Bernard Samedy closing the…
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Garry Pierre-Pierre is a Pulitzer-prize winning, multimedia and entrepreneurial journalist. In 1999, he left the New York Times to launch the Haitian Times, a New York-based English-language publication serving the Haitian Diaspora. He is also the co-founder of the City University Graduate School of Journalism‘s Center for Community and Ethnic Media and a senior producer at CUNY TV.
