Haiti - Jalousie Slum In Living Color

Haiti Environment: Trees are replaced by concrete, this screws up the water cycle

Deforestation is a big problem in Haiti. In many parts of Haiti, especially in and around the major cities, trees are replaced by concrete and this is the reason why the water cycle in Haiti is in big trouble. Read this... [ read more ]

Does Haiti Need Tourism? Or Does It Need Justice?

The quest to "save Haiti" seems to be leading the into opposite directions... Human rights attorney Mario Joseph and Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin are both trying to improve Haiti, but are following radically different paths to doing so... One of them wants justice, the other wants tourism. [ read more ]

New Plans to Build a Town in Haiti, you're the Town Planner, what do you do?

SCENARIO: The Haitian government approaches you and ask to build a brand new town on the edge of the Haiti-Dominican border. How would you build your town? [ read more ]

Haiti's Jalousie slum Is Being Converted into an Objet d'Art

Jalousie, one of Haiti's biggest shantytowns, is getting a very colorful facelift... A psychedelic makeover that aims to be part art and part homage, the Associate Press says... [ read more ]