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Have you heard? The US Dollar rises above 50 gourdes in Haiti. The Haitian Gourde is loosing more and more value... Nowadays need 50.5 Haitian Gourdes to buy one US dollar in Haiti... It's 50.1 gourdes to sell 1 US dollar...

Can you believe this? Haitians in the diaspora sent a whopping 1.9 BILLION dollars in money transfers to their family and friends living in Haiti in the year 2014... That's not counting money sent in the pockets of Haitians traveling back to Haiti...

One upon a time, you needed 5 Haitian gourdes for 1 U.S. dollar... Not anymore... Nowadays, the exchange rate for one U.S. Dollar is 48.74 gourdes. If you want to buy this hard to find green back, you need 49 Haitian gourdes. Soon you may need 50 gourdes.

Some Haitian businessmen are hurting in the Dominican Republic due to a slow down in Haitian merchants coming into DR... Recently, we met with a young Haitian businessman in Santo Domingo who said his business is deeply affected by the relationship between Haitian and the Dominican republic.

Genyen anpil Haitien nan peyi d'Haiti ki ap plenyen LAJAN pa SIKILE nan peyi a... Tout kote ou pase se preske menm pawol la, lajan rete kote li ye a, li pa pase de men nan men, li pa bouje, sa ki lakòz anpil moun razè nan peyi a...

Mezanmi... Zafè telefòn nan peyi d'Haiti se gro koze... W ap met kat, kat ap fini san w pa fè apel... Tande sa... Mwen mete 25 goud sou kont NATCOM mwen nan jodi, mwen pa fè okenn apèl... Nan demen maten, mwen tcheke balans la, mwen wè rete 9.88 goud sou kont la... Mwen rele sevis a la kilyantèl pou-m plenyen, se atò m pèdi lajan...

Haiti now has one of the fastest-growing economies in the Caribbean, according to an article published in the New York Times... This fast-growing economy in Haiti is thanks largely to infrastructure projects financed by the money Haiti saved by buying oil at preferential terms from Venezuela...

It's sick chicken season in Haiti... Last week, I lost 8 of my 12 chickens in the back yard and it made me feel sorry for all the Haitian men and women from the countryside who earn a living raising chicken... I just found out lots of chickens across Haiti get sick and die each and every year... "Maladi Poul" Haitians call it...

Haiti Direction General des Impots (DGI) anonse La Police pwal komanse bay contravention 10,000 goud a tout chofè machin ki ap sikile avek ancien plak nan machin yo...

There is another Gasoline strike announced in Haiti for Monday 09 and Tuesday 10 March, 2015, to force the Haitian government to reduce gasoline prices down to 100 gourdes...