‘Ignored’ hunger crisis unfolds in post-hurricane Haiti
A child is screened for malnutrition in a mobile clinic in Les Anglais, on the western coast of Haiti’s southern peninsula. (Credit: St. Boniface Haiti Foundation) Health experts say the international...
View ArticleHugo Plus, a new variety of maize seeds in Hait
On Thursday, a new variety of maize seed called “Hugo Plus” was introduced at the Bas Boën Rural Development Center (Latremblay 17, Route de Malpasse Ganthier). With the support of the International...
View ArticleMoïse promises 9 rice processing plants in Artibonite
riday, President Jovenel Moïse, in the presence of Carmel André Belliard, the Minister of Agriculture, parliamentarians of the Artibonite, the departmental delegate, entrepreneurs and notables met at...
View ArticlePERUVIAN MATA HARI – KATTIA PAREDES MORENO –RUNNING OAS PARTNERS’ EFFORT TO...
COLLINS: June 29, 2017 Information for this article comes from a high-level intelligence source in the Washington, D.C. area. It was supplied a week ago. Having invested over $100,000,000 in the...
View ArticleMexico Lab Ships Largest GMO Corn Seed Shipment to Haiti- Added COMMENTARY By...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (sentinel.ht) – A Mexican laboratory having investments from two Clinton confidants, tech billionaire Bill Gates and Mexican business magnate, Carlos Slim, created 150 tons of...
View ArticleJamaica Broilers reports $2b profit
Poultry company Jamaica Broilers Group grew its bottom line by one-third at year ending April, amid a double-digit spike in revenue. The company reported net profit of made $2.27 billion, up from $1.7...
View ArticleMoving Haiti’s rustic, rum-like clairin to market
In this June 19, 2017 photo, Jean Rodelin Phillipe, 29, left, carries bagasse with Maxioner Laurent, 24, to be burned in a furnace at the Ti Jean distillery, which produces clairin, a sugar-based...
View ArticleLaborde gets seed and tools from the Smallholder Farmers Alliance
It began as a simple question. Would the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) like a gift of 4,000 pairs of shoes for our farmer members in Haiti? Farmers in the Laborde area in southern Haiti trying...
View ArticleGenetically engineered mosquitoes could wipe out Zika, but some in Dallas...
The mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses showed up in 38 new counties in the U.S. in 2016 — and 34 of those counties are in Texas, according to a report in the...
View ArticleLe sénateur Carl Murat Cantave, ’initiateur de la proposition de loi...
Le sénateur Carl Murat Cantave, ’initiateur de la proposition de loi interdisant le mariage homosexuel en Haïti. Juillet 24, 2017 Sur proposition du sénateur de l’Artibonite, Carl Murat Cantave, le...
View ArticleHaiti – Environment : Towards a disaster announced- Added COMMENTARY By...
According to reports by several international experts, climate change is expected to result in more than 50% reduction in rainfall in the coming years and an increase in average temperatures....
View ArticleAgricultural Policy Forum analyses strategies in the Caribbean
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the ministers of agriculture of Suriname, Guyana, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic, as well as representatives of the...
View ArticleStudy says nixing TPS immigration program would harm economy
By Rhina Guidos • Catholic News Service • Posted July 27, 2017 WASHINGTON (CNS) — Citing the significant economic contributions of immigrants under a federal program known as Temporary Protected...
View ArticleVoodoo believers bathe in a Haitian waterfall said to have healing powers and...
Thousands of Haitians every year flock to the ancient city of Saut d’Eau to bathe in its waterfalls and pay pilgrimage to a Voodoo Goddess of Love. The Saut d’Eau waterfalls, which are located just...
View ArticleInauguration of the first Chinese factory in Haiti
Haiti Libre: Past week, he Dominican group “M” directed by Fernando Capellan that manages the free zone of the Industrial Development Company SA (CODEVI), located in Ouanaminthe on over 600,000 m2, has...
View ArticleChina Extends Her Silk Road To Haiti
Georgianne Nienaber China plans to build markets in Port-au-Prince under the new initiative. China plans to invest $30 billion in Haiti’s infrastructure according to the Haitian Press Agency (AHP)....
View ArticleThis Hurricane Season May Generate as Many as 19 Atlantic Storms
The Atlantic hurricane season will probably end with an above-average 14 to 19 named storms that can rattle energy and agriculture markets now that it is almost certain a system-deterring Pacific El...
View Article2016 weather report: Extreme and anything but normal
Evan Vucci / AP In this June 17, 2016, photo, a fisherman drives a boat during then-Secretary of State John Kerry’s tour of the Jakobshavn Glacier and the Ilulissat Icefjord, located near the Arctic...
View ArticleMosquito Wars-By Bill Gates
Fight back against mosquitoes This is a special blog post. Sign up or sign in, read the article, and take the quiz. Then I will give a bed net to a family in need through World Vision. – Bill Gates...
View ArticleCotton is back in Haiti after a 30-year absence
The reintroduction of cotton to Haiti began with seeds planted in SFA field trials by (left to right) Thony Thomas, smallholder farmer; Atlanta McIlraith, Timberland; Pierre Marie Du Mény, Haitian...
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