Sorry we haven’t posted anything the past couple of days, we are udating there are gonna be alot of new features and MyAyiti.Com Presents - “L’Union Fait la Force” Unity Makes Strength Vol. 2 is coming out soon!
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By Stanley Lucas
Democracy can flourish in Haiti – if given the chance. Despite military coups and the selfish misuse of power by their elected leaders, corruption, and bad governance, Haitian voters have always done their part and shown up at the polls when they felt their votes would count, and organized themselves to stay away when they knew the process was corrupt. Trough a complicated network of rumors and innuendo, they have made a real effort to stay informed and seek out reliable information. However, after the voters have fulfilled their duty, the leaders they elected fail to keep their end of the bargain, and worse, have morphed into the repressive regimes that they fought to oust.
Those elected have had one goal: preserving power at any cost. Whether it’s pilfering Haiti’s meager resources or leading.
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Haiti down a dangerous path with the international community (as seen in the above picture of Preval being friendly with Ahmadinejad), it is the Haitian people who always pay the price. Unfortunately, the current President, Rene Preval does not offer much hope of this trend being reversed. President Rene Preval has built an abysmal record of implementing democracy. He directly supported the rigging and manipulation of three elections (April 6, 1997, May 21, 2000 and November 26, 2000) in favor of his mentor and political ally, former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The manipulated results of the April 6, 1997 elections were blocked by Prime Minister Rosny Smarth. Preval dissolved parliament in January 1999, politicized the police and allowed corruption to prosper while drug trafficking was on the rise under the control of Aristide’s foes. Several years later, the electoral crisis of 2000, that Preval helped to create, led to Aristide’s resignation leaving Haiti in chaos. Because of its leaders failure to democratize, Haiti remains in an almost constant state of political chaos.
By Jeffrey Zahka
Haitians are repatriated in a military truck after the Dominican border was closed due to violent demonstrations. (Photo: Ricardo Rojas / AFP-Getty Images)
“Dominicans define themselves in terms of who they are not,” said Tamar Thompson, project coordinator of the New York-based National Coalition for Haitian Rights. “Globally speaking, there is no place where you score points for being darker.”
Thompson’s words are reflected in the way citizens of the Dominican Republic describe their racial identities: “oscuro” for the darkest skinned, “canela” for those of medium hue, and “claro” for those with the lightest complexions. All are referred to as “Indians.” None are referred to as “black.” That word is only used to describe persons from the nation occupying the western one-third of Hispaniola, their shared Caribbean island.
Much of Dominican self-identity is rooted in the Republic’s long-standing rivalry with neighboring Haiti. Although Dominicans most closely identify with their former Spanish colonizers, their Independence Day, Feb. 27, celebrates the country’s victory over Haiti in 1844. Antecedently, Haiti had ruled the Dominican Republic for 22 years. Although the two countries have not fought any wars since then, this period of subjugation has remained in Dominicans’ collective consciousnesses.
By Mia Farrow
Special to CNN
Actress Mia Farrow has traveled extensively as an ambassador for UNICEF, including trips to Darfur, Angola and Chad, and has been active in the organization for 10 years. Farrow starred in the film “Rosemary’s Baby” and has appeared in many other films, including “The Great Gatsby,” “Death on the Nile,” and “Hannah and Her Sisters.” In 1997, she published a memoir, “What Falls Away.”
Mia Farrow views flooding in Haiti on a trip to the country devastated by a string of recent storms.
(CNN) — I have just returned from my latest trip as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Once again I found myself in one of the world’s poorest countries; once again I held children with stick limbs and distended bellies.
Again, most of these children are without clean water, adequate food, basic health care and the opportunity for an education. Again, before they reach the age of five, many will die from preventable diseases.
But this visit was not to Africa. These are the grim realities for the people of Haiti, just one hour from the shores of the United States.
Haiti is shattered by decades of poverty, violence, bad governance and neglect. There is little infrastructure, no jobs for 75% of the population, child trafficking is common, there are countless orphans and street children.
Then a few weeks ago, things got a whole lot worse for the people of Haiti, when the first of four hurricanes pounded their shores.
by Nikolas Barry-Shaw
Coming to office in the midst of a hurricane-provoked humanitarian crisis, Haiti’s new Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis clearly has her work cut out for her. Paradoxically, one of the biggest obstacles her administration will face is the blight of foreign-funded NGOs eagerly trying to “help” Haiti. The new Prime Minister acknowledged as much recently, stating that “the channelling of hundreds of millions of dollars of international aid through NGOs poses serious problems for the country,” according to the Agence Haitienne de Presse.
Over the past decade, a tidal wave of NGOs have come to blanket Haiti. According to the World Bank, there are today over 10,000 NGOs working in Haiti, the highest per-capita concentration in the world. These organizations occupy every possible sector of activity, their budgets sometimes dwarfing those of their governmental counterparts.
Agriculture provides a telling example, as Nazaire St. Fort reports: “[M]ore than 800 NGOs work parallel with the agriculture ministry, but most define their own priorities.” The Association National des Agro-professionnels Haïtiens (ANDAH) explains that of the “3.4 billion gourdes (91 million dollars) budgeted for public investment in 2006-2007, 3.2 billion (85 million dollars) are managed by NGOs.”
UPDATE: Pushed this back up to the top. Look at the carnage (below).
CNBC:
The market screamed as the House vote on the Wall Street bailout bill teetered on the edge of a cliff - and then fell off. “This is panic and … fear run amok,” Zachary Karabell, president of River Twice Research told CNBC. “Right now we are in a classic moment of a financial meltdown,” he said. “The mood is definitely the old expression, ‘Fish or cut bait,” said Matt Cheslock, a senior specialist at Cohen Specialists. “Everyone’s kind of upset with the political grandstanding that’s going on. We haven’t solved any problems that we’re in,” he said.
McCain can’t like this news at all.
The package failed on a 228-205 vote after Congressional leaders held the vote open for a half-hour after time had expired as they tried to persuade lawmakers to change their votes.
The failure — after lawmakers remained in Washington over the weekend to negotiate a compromise — essentially sends Congress and the White House back to the drawing table as they try to craft a compromise.
Word on the street is Djakout was allegedly offered 40G for the whole weekend of the Compas Festival to jump ship to the FL Festival. They are strongly considering it and even allege that Rodney Noel may have to step up and match this deal otherwise they might be jumping ship. According to our snitches, Rodney Noel pays them 20G which is half of what FL Festival is willing to pay making this a very tempting offer. Now we’re also hearing that other bands are getting ready to make the same demands as Djakout. Amongst the names that were dropped… Nu Look.
Source: OpaMizik
By Sokari Ekine
A leaked email from a BBC editor highlights the Western media’s lack of interest in Haiti. David Edwards writes:
The whistleblower’s editor had listed several stories which he described as “not that interesting”, followed by the comment: “Dull stories - every one of them, don’t you think?” These were the stories:
“The leading anti-drugs judge in Afghanistan has been assassinated. “There’s been an angry reaction in France following the magazine publication of photos of Taleban fighters displaying trophies they’d stripped from French soldiers killed in an ambush. “The authorities in Haiti say the number of those killed in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna has risen to more than sixty. “A United Nations report says the world’s wealthiest countries are failing to deliver on their promises to boost development aid.
By the end of the week the number of Haitian dead had risen to 500 and now it is estimated that at least 1000 have died. The number of displaced is in millions. It’s not just Haitian stories that are dull and not worth the words on the paper. Another example of the discrepancy in reporting and value attached to people’s lives is the reports on the floods in the Indian state of Bihar. Hardly a word has been heard on the British TV and radio news including the World Service. Apparently Westerns are not able to empathise with people who live in places like Bihar and Gonaives. Black people, People of Colour - are too remote to reach people’s imaginations.
By Clarence E Pilgrim
Clarence E Pilgrim
NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts are now set to blast off late at night on October 14 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, for its last visit to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The flight was delayed due to Hurricane Ike. What is significant about this mission is the fact that it is the first time there is an emergency space shuttle ready to blast off if anything goes wrong. Endeavour will serve as the rescue ship for Atlantis, if there is a need.
Against the backdrop of this scientific and logistical achievement, the United States (US) economy remains in an unfortunately precarious state of financial flux.
The US administration of President George Bush, has proposed a $ 700 billion plan to rescue the economy. According to the President, “[the] rescue effort is not aimed at preserving any individual company or industry.” He said that government is the only entity that is capable of buying financial firms’ troubled assets, at their current low prices and holding them until their value returns to normal. His argument was based on the belief that foreclosures would rise, millions of people could lose their jobs and “ultimately our country could experience a long and painful recession.”
The desperate financial system in an election year has caused both presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama to re-focus their campaign on the present crisis. Even though both say this situation should be above politics, the fact is that one of them will move into the White House come January, and essential to their rise is proving to the electorate and indeed the world, that they are showing leadership during crisis by providing workable solutions. As it stands now, more voters believe that candidate Obama has greater credibility on the issue of providing solutions for the economy. It is interesting that one of the candidates wanted to suspend their campaign because of the crisis.
Jojo Lorquet of all people must have wanted to give Rodney Noel the finger for a while now but his wasn’t enough. So what did he do? Well, he got together with some others to make sure the finger delivery long enough to stick in Compas Festival’s organizers face. Jojo Lorquet and company have put together a festival in Fort Lauderdale (herein FL) to go head to head with Compas Festival (herein CF) in Miami on the same day in May of next year.
Compas Festival: Djakout Mizik, Kreyola La, Back Up, Mizik Mizik, Harmonik, Brother Possie, Zin, Carimi, Nu Look and Do-La.
Should the Bands be worried?
The line ups are as follow:
Fort Lauderdale Festival (TARGET NOT OFFICIAL) : T-Vice, Zenglen, System Band, Krezi, Strings, Gabel, Tabou Combo, Sweet Mickey, Hangout, and Barikad Crew.
Should Compas Festival be worried?
Maybe! The line up of the FL festival mainly consist of bands that were either banned from Compas Festival, never really got a chance be a part of it or just bands that took part in it but ended up on bad terms with the organizers. For example, Krezi due to their differences with Kreyol La (whom Rodney prefers) have not played in CF for the past 3 years opening them to any new festival. Zenglen stop performing in CF for personal issues with the organizers. Gabel who I doubt was ever even invited as a new band. CF might have to put their differences aside with certain bands and reopen their gates to them to participate. They might want to start with T-Vice since while they’re still up for grabs.
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