NEW YORK (AP)--The president of the Dominican Republic on Wednesday said rising world energy prices are having a disproportionate effect on the developing world, increasing the cost of essential goods and threatening the political stability of countries including his own. Read more »

Below is a notice from the US Trade and Development Agency concerning grants to upgrade the Port au Prince airport.  It certainly cant hurt - we will keep you updated.

When he isn't snowboarding or volunteering for Engineers Without Borders, Dave Williams spends his days thinking about something most of us take for granted: ice. As he discovered on a volunteer trip to Haiti in 2002, ice can be a godsend to a poor village, keeping fish fresh on a journey to market or preserving vaccines. Read more »

Wuchereria Therapy; Efficacy of combined treatment of helminth infections examined

2005 SEP 9 - (NewsRx.com) -- Investigators have determined the tolerance and efficacy of combined diethylcarbamazine and albendazole for treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti and intestinal helminth infections in Haitian children. Read more »

Looking forward, we must consider the possibility that Haiti, by itself, may never stabilize, never see economic growth, and never pull itself from abject poverty. Let's look back on where Haiti has been for the last two decades. Since 1986, we have seen the last full year the Duvalier regime controlled Haiti; one dictator ousted by another and then again by another; the first democratic elections in Haiti's 180+ year history, which too were curtailed; a hemisphere-wide, economic embargo of Haiti that in retrospect only hurt the poor and not the junta; the second US occupation, (check out Hideous Dream by Stan Goff); tainted election after tainted election; and the evaporation of the Haitian military and the Legislative Branch. Needless to say, Haiti has seen much turmoil. Read more »

In getting Haiti to where it is today, it has had many internal and external actors. There is, of course, the horrific toll slavery took upon the Taino Indian population (eradicated by colonizers by the late 17th century) and blacks taken from West Africa to replace them. In 1825, Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer conceded to French demands to pay reparations for the property and investment colonizers had lost due to Haitian independence. Boyer, afraid of invasion, agreed. This sum, which has been valued at more then $21 billion in today’s money, crippled Haiti’s economy as it stripped the countryside in order to make payments. Read more »

Why should the US government and people have Haiti's back?

There are three main bodies of thought with regard to why the United States should pay attention to Haiti; first, is the humanitarian reason; second, the guilt or responsibility reason; and third the forethought and pragmatic reason. I will only briefly address each, as there has been great effort into researching these topics already. Read more »

Prime Minister Gerard Latortue. Interim Government of Haiti (IGH). What a sight. Rarely ever seen, these two phrases, just as you see them above. They are always cluttered with the phrase, "U.S. backed", and wrongly I'll add. "I've got your back." Read more »