Haitian Newsletter Articles

If you sent me on a mission to take 25 pictures to show daily life in Haiti, I would choose a different set of pictures but I am Haitian, I am not Reuters. I don't have their mentality.

Take a look at these boots... Believe it or not, these Timberland boots are made from old recycled plastic bottles recovered in Haiti...

Haitian businessman and former Senator Roudolph Boulos has just been sentenced to 6 months in prison in relation to an old case of kidney failure linked to contaminated medicine that had claimed many lives in Haiti.

There is a big media battle over Haitian Senator and former rebel leader Guy Philippe, incarcerated in the United States... The battle is clear between Radio Eclair journalist Louko Desir (emission Matin Debat) and Scoop FM journalist Garry Pierre Paul Charles (emisison Haiti Debat)

Chile is Deporting Haitians... The Republic of Chile has decided to return 239 Haitian citizens back to their home country. The deportation of Haitians traveling to Chile has begun.

A new law has been proposed in the Dominican Republic parliament to prevent Haitian illegal immigrants from renting houses.

Can you believe this? The Haitian ministry of education has identified 92 teachers with fake diplomas teaching in our public schools.

Read this... From now on in Haiti, all commercial transactions across the country will be made in Haitian Gourdes. This is according to a presidential decree dated March 1, 2018 following a conseil des ministres.

Watch this video... Can you imagine that? There are Haitian con artists in Chile scamming newly arrived Haitian travelers right at the airport, robbing them blind, stealing their money, all their belongings and leaving them only with the clothes on their backs.

More than one percent of the Haitian population has moved to Chile but it is not the promise land that may expected. A good friend mine is considering coming back home once he's done paying his travel debts.