Flood of post-quake donated and subsidized US rice dismays Haitian farmers

A family walks next to a tent at a camp for homeless earthquake survivors at Pele neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. A magnitude-7 earthquake hit Haiti last Jan. 12. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Haiti’s rice farmers are dismayed. It’s nearly harvest time in this fertile valley where the bulk of Haiti’s food is grown, and they’re competing once again with cheap U.S. imported rice.

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Haitian V Is A Security Guard For T-Vice’s Dressing Room. When They Get To The Door, Haitian V Stops Them & Tells Them To Go Back. They Tell Him They Are T-Vice. He asks Them To Prove It By Singing A Song They Plan To Perform At Jaz Enterprise’s “La Nuit Des Jeunes” Concert On March 27, 2010 At New York‘s Hammerstein Ballroom.

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By Jake Paine
Haitian-American Sha Money XL To A&R

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Haitian-American Tony Yayo Ft Cormega – Streets Keep Callin’ Me

In late 2009, Tony Yayo, along with Juelz Santana was instrumental in bringing together two of the bigger Hip Hop brands in G-Unit and The Diplomats. 50 Cent‘s right hand man dating back to the ’90s explained to HipHopDX last week, how in that same year, he also stressed a union with one of the more respected underground Hip Hop emcees of his Queens burough, Cormega. The two made “Streets Keep Callin’ Me,” a video collaboration.

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BY PAUL COLLIER
Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Luckily, there’s a solution.

In the outpouring of generosity since Haiti‘s earthquake last month, donors, investors, and charities have all made big moves to help. Key countries pledged assistance at a January summit in Montreal. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which fortuitously convened the private sector just a few weeks after the quake, there was also a new seriousness toward unlocking economic opportunities. Even individuals — nearly half of U.S. households — have donated to the Haitian relief and reconstruction effort in unprecedented amounts.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) and Haitian President Rene Preval survey the earthquake damage, during a helicopter flight over Port-au-Prince.

The earthquake that hit Haiti last month destroyed up to 50 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to Haitian President René Préval, who puts the death toll from the disaster at between 200,000 and 300,000 thousand people.

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