Tag: haitigangviolence

Tag: haitigangviolence

Haiti: Change is not for tomorrow

Peace and Security are two commodities that are hard to come by on the embattled island of Haiti. Ask anyone who still dares to walk the gang-infested streets; they might tell you that living in hell might be no different than life in Haiti. The governance structure in Haiti may have temporarily changed since April,

Haiti, a very dim light at the end of the tunnel

I recently had the opportunity to be the subject of a documentary as part of a school assignment for a student filmmaker.  He was a friend of my daughter’s, so I agreed to be interviewed. We kicked around a few topics that could be interesting and then settled on what felt right and what I

Haiti, as the lights fade away…

It was a little past midnight when I heard a burst of what sounded like machine gun fire. I was still debating whether it was fireworks or actual gunshots when the sound pierced the air again. In my neighborhood, sitting on the lower part of the Turgeau hills in Port-au-Prince, the night air carries sounds