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As Haiti burns, government adds kindling or turns blind eye

By Onz Chery, Haitian Times, Oct. 10, 2020 The news out of Haiti this summer sounded too cruel and outlandish to be true. A 4-month-old infant was shot dead while in his mothers’ arms on a minibus. Another, an 8-month-old, was fatally struck by a stray bullet as her mother cleaned their home.   Some college students, anguished after their celebrated prof…
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Did Washington use Haiti to launch biological warfare against Cuba?

By Ken Lawrence, Haiti Liberté, Oct. 7, 2020 Navassa Island (Ile de la Navasse) is located in the center of the Caribbean Sea, 46 miles west of the Haitian town of Jérémie. Spain ceded the small two-square-mile uninhabited island to France under the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, and it became part of Haiti after its 1804 independence. But in 1858, the United Sta…
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Forcing the UN to do right by Haitian cholera victims

By Liz Mineo, Harvard Gazette, Oct. 6, 2020 Freshly graduated from law school, Beatrice Lindstrom arrived in Haiti in October of 2010 on a one-year fellowship to work with the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, a Haitian human rights organization. Soon after, the country was struck by an outbreak of cholera traced to a sewage leak from a base of U.N. peacek…
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Yellow Union leader, a member of Haiti’s controversial new Electoral C…

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Sept. 30, 2020 Patrick Numas represents the “Union Sector” in the widely denounced Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) unconstitutionally established earlier this month by Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. For decades, Numas has been the Secretary General of the Independent General Organization of Haitian Workers (OGITH), a union…
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Biden unveils top priorities for Haiti, Haitian-Americans if elected

By Sam Bojarski, Haitian Times, Oct. 5, 2020 Investing in Haiti’s prosperity and security is in the national security interest of the United States, said Joe Biden, in announcing policy priorities that impact Haiti and Haitian-Americans. The Democratic presidential nominee made the statement in a media release before an expected visit with Haitians in Miami…
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The battle for Barbancourt

By Sam Bojarski, Haitian Times, Sept. 16, 2020 For more than 150 years, Haiti’s most cherished spirit, the rum produced by Société du Rhum Barbancourt, has been a part of many Haitian family gatherings and traditions. And when Haitian families began migrating throughout the world, they brought the distinctive brand of smooth sugar cane rum as a staple for t…
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With Washington’s support, Haitian President forms Electoral Council d…

By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberté, Sept. 23, 2020 Haitian President Jovenel Moïse unveiled a new Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) on Sep. 18, despite Haiti’s traditional opposition vowing that they will not take part in any elections he presides over. Instead, the opposition demands that Moïse step down 137 days from now (if not before), on Feb. 7, 2021, the e…
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Canadian Foreign Policy

Liberal ‘feminist’ policy funds Haitian police (for real)

By Yves Engler, Sept. 4, 2020

An important component of Trudeau’s international branding has been his government’s purported “feminist foreign policy”. A recent aid contract to Haiti highlights the hollowness of these Liberal claims.

Under its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) the Trudeau government has tendered a $12.5 million contract in operational support to the Haitian police. According to Buyandsell.gc.ca, “the Support for a Professional and Inclusive Police in Haiti (SPIP) Project will contribute to 3 of Canada’s 6 Feminist International Assistance Policyaction areas: (i) gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, (ii) inclusive governance, and (iii) peace and security. By strengthening the HNP’s [Haitian national police] institutional…

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