Haitian Times News Roundup – July 27 Haiti Haiti grapples with task of helping its vulnerable children Like roughly a quarter of Haiti’s children, 11-year-old Franchina has spent much of her short life without parents. Her mother dead, her father in prison, Franchina was placed in a state-run orphanage as a toddler, remaining illiterate…
South Florida ‘Scared to death’: Miami Haitians fear family separations if protected status expires Warning of the potential for a new family separation crisis within South Florida’s sprawling Haitian and Central American neighborhoods, immigrant advocates and Haitian-born recipients long shielded from deportation are calling for the Trump administration to extend their Temporary Protected Status prior…
Haiti’s poverty, like the fuel-price increases, is the product of decisions made by those who possess wealth and power in Haiti and abroad — with a stunning absence of input from the majority of Haitians who are poor. The crippling fuel increases — between 38 percent and 51 percent — were imposed in February by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a condition of its bailout of Haiti’s government.
Haiti Haiti’s maternal mortality rates among the highest. So why is this hospital closing? In a country where more women die before, during and after childbirth than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere, poor women in Haiti with high-risk pregnancies now have one less option for life-saving care. Continue reading. Haitians in America Haitians In…
Food A Huge Haitian Food Festival Is Happening In Montreal The 12th annual Haitian festival called Haiti En Folie is going down next weekend. The festival actually has multiple components at various locations, but if you’re strictly looking for food you have to attend the Foire Culinaire which will be held in Parc Lafontaine in…
Haiti Haitians shut down streets demanding jobs, rollback of prices Politicians in Haiti thought they had a bright idea. Since people were following the World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Belgium on July 6, rooting deeply for Brazil, they would choose that time to obey the International Monetary Fund and raise the price of…
Major protests erupted on July 6 in Haiti as the government announced a sharp increase in gasoline prices, with demonstrators using burning tires and barricades to block major streets across the capital and in the northern city of Cap-Haitien. One week after the protests erupted, former Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned from his post….
Haitians in America Haitian-Americans In South Florida Reflect On Recent Riots In Haiti What happens in Haiti is felt in South Florida. Recent protests in Haiti over hikes in fuels costs caused many in the Haitian diaspora to reflect on the politics and stability of the island. Continue reading. Haitians In America: Millennial War Vet…
Haiti Haitian officials knew the gas price hike would be unpopular. They did it anyway As Haitian soccer fans were glued to their televisions Friday watching the Brazil-Belgium World Cup game, the Haitian government — on the state-owned TV channel — announced it was imposing new measures that leaders had been warned would be wildly…
Food Fleur De Vie Hosts Fifth Annual Food Tasting Brunch On June 24, Fleur De Vie (Flower of Life) closed the month of June with its annual food tasting fundraising brunch “La Palette Saisonniere Du Chef” (Chef’s Seasonal Palette) at New York’s French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF). The New York-based nonprofit partners with existing organizations…