Fear Factor in Haiti

Does Superstition play a BIG role in the non-development of Haiti and the Haitian mindset?

99.9 percent of the Haitians are superstitious. I was surprised to be listening to a famous journalist in Haiti yesterday who thinks it is normal for people to die during the carnival season because, superstitiously speaking, it has to happen. SAY WHAT??? more »

March 9, 2019 6:54 AM

In Haiti, LOUGAROUs and the Government is blamed for every freaking thing!

Imagine that... A baby is crying all day and all night, she is not eating, she just keeps on crying. The family refuses to take her to a hospital. Instead, they think it's some poor lougarou neighbor trying to suck the blood of the baby. more »

May 19, 2018 7:04 AM

Moving Back To Haiti - I Did It...

Ever since I was 15 years growing up in Spring Valley, New York, I said to myself that I would like to move back to Haiti by the time I am forty years old. more »

June 22, 2013 6:26 AM

Haiti Construction - Boss Mason Afraid of Each Other

I asked a Haitian "boss mason" for an estimate on a construction job in Haiti, just an estimate, then I ask second one... He flat out refused to even give me an estimate simply because I asked another before him... more »

May 17, 2013 10:54 AM