November 17th, 2021Transportation prices have soared in the metropolitan area since the country's chronic fuel scarcity. The inter-city price for a mini bus trip between Port-au-Prince and several provincial cities has increased by as much as 250 gourdes. Meanwhile, the regular price for a tap tap in the city of Port Au Prince used to be 10 gourdes, now it...
November 17th, 2021To help building a sustainable health infrastructure in order to provide rapid post-disaster care and reduce human loss in the future, the office of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Haiti, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health, agreed in 2019 on the construction of a Reception Service and modernized and...
November 17th, 2021On Saturday, November 13 in a note, the Prime Minister Office formally and categorically denied the false information circulating on social networks according to which the Government had disbursed 40 million gourdes to the coalition of armed gangs "G9" to negotiate a truce facilitating the passage of tank trucks transporting fuel at the...
November 11th, 2021Reports from a bulletin published by The Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics (IHSI) published on October 22 of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of September 2021 noticed that inflation for September 2021 was 1.4%.
The IHSI also publishes the CPI by expenditure group. The group that saw the highest price...
November 11th, 2021The fuel shortage, which has lasted and worsened for several weeks in Haiti, continues to have serious consequences.
Drinking water may be lacking in several municipalities as of this week…
After the Health Centers, shops, banks it's the turn of the National Directorate of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DINEPA) to be heading...
November 11th, 2021Two barges carrying a large amount of fuel are expected to arrive in the country this weekend. One of the barges will dock in another port in the West and the other in the South to supply the market facing a severe fuel shortage.
With this strategy, the government seems to want to avoid the path of confrontation with the gangs who...
November 10th, 2021Natural disasters are the direct consequence of the increase Haiti's dependence on remittances from the diaspora and this is since 1991 according to data shared by a leading Haitian economist.
From 1991 to 1994, transfers increased from -$50 million to $100 million. From 1994 to 1998, they increased to $327 million. In 2011 after the...
November 10th, 2021Haitians are once more eligible for temporary, seasonal work in the United States under two federal guest-worker programs, three years after being kicked out by the Trump administration.
The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it was reinstating Haiti in the H-2A and H-2B guest worker visa programs for the coming...
November 10th, 2021The Biden administration is urging U.S. citizens in Haiti “to strongly consider returning to the United States” amid a gang-aggravated fuel shortage and a deteriorating security climate in which 17 Christian missionaries, including 16 Americans, have been held hostage for more than three weeks.
The message in a Friday security...