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If you listen to the Haitian media sometimes you will think that Port-au-Prince Haiti is the most dangerous place in the caribbean but, did you know, Kingston Jamaica is the most dangerous city in the Caribbean. How often do you read about that in Jamaican news media?

It's been 14 months since the United Nations peacekeeping MINUSTAH forces left Haiti and the Haitian police have been doing their best to maintain law and order as the only forces in a country that is not very easy to govern. In your opinion, how is the Haiti's Police Nationale (PNH) doing?

Founded in 1503 by Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, the city of Hinche, the capital of the Centre Department of Haiti is about to celebrate its 515 years of existence on Saturday, December 8, 2018 on the occasion of the feast (Fête Patronale) of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.

There are 11 million people living in Haiti and only 16,000 Police officers. That's one Haitian police officer for every 700 people.

Read the from Le Nouvelliste: The petrochallengers lost control of the movement they launched about three months ago on social networks. This movement has been recovered by politicians.

November 01 2018, All Saints' Day in Haiti was ruined this year. even the director of the Cimetière de Port-au-Prince was complaining on television because the crowd that was expected to come "fêter avec les morts au cimetière" (party with the dead, an annual ritual in Haiti) were disturbed by street protest and sporadic gun fire.

The 5.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Northern Haiti Saturday left 15 people dead and 330 others wounded according to the director general of The Directorate for Civil Protection (DPC), an entity managed by the Ministry of Interior (MICT)

All Haitians living with TPS in the United States read this... A judge in San Francisco Califormia has blocked the Trump Administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and other immigrants from Sudan, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Let me ask you a question: What do you do with your old friends after you try so hard to be successful in life? Are your old friends at the same level you're at right now OR... have they made absolutely no effort to improve their lives? If it's the later, you have to a decision to make.

True story... A Haitian proffessional walks into a supermarket in Port-au-Prince to purchase a bottle of wine. As he stood at the register to pay for the wine, and old man looked at him with a mean face and said: "Lajan PetroCaribe a, w ap bay li wi!" (the PetroCaribe money that's in your hands, you will give it up)