Wanted: A few good diplomats
Having completed its presidential elections, Haiti moved toward local elections. Soon, it will be be time to assemble a government. Assembling a coalition government is easy, maintaining it is another...
View ArticleEight to Fifteen Percent!!!
I'm just coming in from visiting numerous voting polls in Port-au-Prince where UN sources tell me the numbers are as low as 8 to 15% voter turnout. Not a line to wait in at any polling station and...
View ArticleDialogue and Democracy
The importance of dialogue is a topic that recently sworn in President Rene Preval has raised repeatedly. Haitians are masters of the gift of gab....talking, joking, arguing, debating. But what is the...
View ArticleNEWS ALERT: Neptune Released!
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Today, Haitian Government Officials released former-Prime Minister Yvon Neptune after a strange and tragic course of events. Here is a link to the Miami Herald aricle.
View ArticleGiving Up Already...
In less than a week’s time, the once cautiously optimistic decision by Haitian gangs to disarm has been abandoned.
View ArticleDisarmement: a Long-Term Process
I've been reading with great interest the efforts of the international community to encourage gang members in the slums of Port au Prince to disarm. To my knowledge, there has never been as concerted...
View ArticleControl of Corruption (2005)
Here is an interesting link to a World Bank Library of indicators on governance. This retrospective study focused on the period from 1996 - 2005.
View ArticleHaitian Police Call for Help from Caribbean Neighbors
According to a recent news report, at the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police at Amaryllis Beach Resort on Tuesday of last week, Haitian Nation
View ArticleThe Kidnapping Conundrum
If the kidnappings in Haiti have proven nothing else, it shows that no one is safe and that left unaddressed, stability and ultimately development will not take place.Gangs have brazenly announced...
View ArticleTelecorruption in Haiti
Peace Corps Volunteers rapidly learn the difficulties of making a simple phone call. As late as 2000, this usually meant going to the local chapter of the state-owned telephone monopoly known as...
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