by Colette Lespinasse | Mar 17, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
On February 21, 2022, the Dominican authorities launched the much trumpeted construction of an electrical wall approximately 380 kilometers long on the border with Haiti. The first stage of this project was initiated in the North zone, more precisely on the Dajabon...
by Colette Lespinasse | Feb 21, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
Three Haitian women explain the situation, the efforts and their disappointment At the initiative of the Greens/EFA deputy, Ms. Caroline Roose, of the European Parliament and supported by the Belgian Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), 3 Haitian women took part, on...
by Colette Lespinasse | Jan 3, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
In Haiti, every first of January, the giraumont soup (also called soup joumou) flows freely. In all homes, in all social strata, both in the country and among Haitians living abroad, this soup is consumed that day from sunrise until sunset to commemorate the feast of...
by Colette Lespinasse | Nov 17, 2021 | Articles from COEH, Topics
Despite a gloomy situation characterized by the difficulty of moving from one place to another due to fuel shortages and insecurity, more than sixty representatives of peasant organizations, labour unions and supporting NGOs met at a hotel in the Haitian capital...
by Colette Lespinasse | Sep 24, 2021 | Articles from COEH, Topics
This Thursday morning, September 23, 2021, the news is running all the media in Haiti and all social networks: the special envoy of the United States to Haiti, Mr. Daniel Foote, appointed barely two months ago, has just given his resignation. In a scathing letter to...
