haiti currency

Back in March 2018 the Haitian government made the decision that all commercial transactions across the country were to be made exclusively in gourdes, the Haitian currency, buying or selling. But today, the government is curbing that decision a little bit.

Nowadays, if you have 100 dollars US in Haiti, you will receive 7,025 Haitian Gourdes in exchange. Some people say it will go up even higher in the days to come.

Can you believe this? Most of the US Dollars coming into Haiti are leaving the country through the Dominican Republic. 80% of all U.S. dollars exchanged in the city of Hinche Haiti goes to the Dominican Republic. I just heard this most shocking news from someone who is in the business of exchanging currency in the Centre Department of Haiti.

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.

Once upon a time in Haiti, one US Dollar was worth no more than 5 Haitian gourdes; that's why the 5 gourdes bill was called 'one dollar'. Nowadays, in commercial banks in Haiti, the US dollar is around 70 gourdes whether you are buying or selling it...

Haiti Money Update -- If the Haitian Gourde has lost so much value to the U.S. Dollar, it is because of past mistakes of former Haitian Leaders, President Michel Martelly said on the election trail...

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...

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.

When I look at the Haitian currency, it says "GOURDE", but since returning to Haiti I notice that Haitians refuse to talk count money in gourdes... Everything is DOLA... DOLA... Mezanmi... Haitien fè dola?

When I was a child growing up in Haiti, my father used to tell me how expensive life was (tout bagay shè) and how cheap life was 'back in the days' when he was a child growing up in Haiti...