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Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille Visits Washington D.C.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday met with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, who is visiting Washington for talks on his country's post-earthquake reconstruction efforts.

Haiti’s Recovery Continues as Haitian Businesses Thrive

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund joins Haitians in looking ahead, rebuilding the country and creating economic opportunity. As of January 6, 2012, the Fund has committed close to $36M to programs promoting smart, sustainable economic development. Part of this support includes today’s announcement of $3.2M in financing and business services for small and growing enterprises.

U.S. Department of Defense Helps Bolster Haiti's Disaster Response

Haiti's Civil Protection network received a substantial boost with the presentation of SUVs, trucks, boats, canoes, 11,000 solar radios, tents and other disaster-response equipment presented as gifts to the Government of Haiti by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Haiti Flights - Delta Airlines from Atlanta, GA to Port-au-Prince, Haiti

 

Delta Air Lines Inc. on April 7, 2012 is to launch a weekly flight from Atlanta to Haiti, the first nonstop air service to the country from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in at least two decades. Delta already flies nonstop from New York to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, but that flight is mostly sustained by local demand.

As Haiti rebuilds, what it needs is tourism dollars

Cap Haïtien – I landed here in Haiti’s second-biggest city, land of my ancestors, on a hot day wearing Chuck Taylors and aviator Ray-Bans. I was home away from home.

Haiti's Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, Daniel Supplice attacked in D.R.

A presidential adviser in Haiti says that government Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, Daniel Supplice was attacked while visiting the neighboring Dominican Republic.

CARICOM Develops Health Project in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is developing a project to improve the healthcare infrastructure and raise Haitian residents'' awareness in the Brooklyn neighborhood, in the community of Cite Soleil, in this capital.

  The project, called WASH, consists of personal hygiene and food safety practices, and is part of support for Haiti's national strategy to fight the epidemic of cholera, the website caribbeannewsnow.com reported on Friday.

Investment interest growing in Haiti

Invest in Haiti Forum, one of the largest meetings of its kind ever held in the Caribbean, underscoring the strong private sector interest in the country’s economic potential.  Participants discussed concrete business opportunities in sectors such as apparel, tourism and agribusiness, as well as infrastructure projects related to Haiti’s reconstruction and long term development efforts.

Haiti secures major investments

LS Cable & Systems, Marriott International, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Colombia's National Coffee Federation confirms major investments in Haiti at Invest-in-Haiti forum which highlighted various business opportunities in Haiti.

President Michel Martelly to create 500K Jobs

President Michel Martelly wants to create 500,000 jobs in Haiti over the next three years. Some of the job opportunities will come from a new Marriott hotel planned for Port-au-Prince and a South Korean-run industrial park slated to open next year in the north, both championed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton this week on a two-day visit.

Servotel opened in front of Toussaint Louverture International airport

This is a hotel of 54 rooms the hotel group's largest country has just opened in front of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport. This investment of six million, the group owner and Kinam Karibe, offers an attractive setting in the first hotel that combines comfort to earthquake standards.

Haiti Business Opportunities Investment Forum

The two-day Invest in Haiti Forum in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is aimed at highlighting business opportunities in the country.  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) organized the event along with the Haitian government and the Clinton Foundation.

Insurance brings security to Haiti’s informal sector

MiCRO is an innovative platform that provides customised reinsurance coverage to help protect lending institutions and their low-income borrowers against losses resulting from natural disasters. The grant agreement provides claims-paying capacity to MiCRO for its Haiti programme via a multi-donor trust fund administered by the CDB and inaugurated in late-September 2011 following an initial contribution of US$1.5 million by DFID.

Haiti creating home loan system for middle class first time home buyers

Haiti's struggle to rebuild homes. A few members of Haiti's small middle class will be able for the first time to get a mortgage.Haitian President Michel Martelly has launched his own housing program. Dubbed Kay Pa'm — Haitian Creole for "my own house" — it aims to provide mortgages to first-time homeowners who belong to Haiti's middle class.

Haitian Coffee : The black gold of Haiti is hot again

The black gold of Haiti, coffee creole is hot again. Haitian coffee is back after decades of political chaos and plummeting prices have crippled Haiti’s once rich coffee production. Now increasing global demand and short supply are giving Haiti coffee a welcomed jolt.

Self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti

Big pharma companies such as Abbott Laboratories, the Illinois-based company is donating the time of dozens of workers with expertise in food sciences and engineering, in addition to $6.5 million cash, to build a charitable, self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti,

Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, talks 'social business' in Haiti

Yunus said the "social business" idea is different from the "microcredit" industry that he pioneered in the 1980s, when he gave tiny loans to poor people to help them start small businesses. "There's a business world. There's a charity world," "Why can't we take those ideas and try to make money and also solve (social) problems?" 

 



 

Looking at the poultry industry in Haiti

Haiti Broilers is in the process of establishing; a small feed mill,hatchery and pullet rearing operation just north of the capital, Port Au Prince, which should be operational in December 2011.

Bill Clinton increases involvement in Haiti

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton Thursday became head of an advisory panel on investment and development issues to Haitian President Michel Martelly, according to reports reaching here.

U.S. State Department's New Haiti Travel Warnings

The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to or living in Haiti about the security situation in Haiti. This replaces the Travel Warning dated January 20, 201.

Eco Building Products Successfully Lands 22 Containers of Red Shield Protected Lumber in Haiti

Eco Building™ Products, Inc., (OTCBB: ECOB) announced today the company has commenced unloading of containers with Red Shield coated lumber in our Port Au Prince wholesale lumber distribution facility. The entire lumber package previously sold to local Haitian building supply companies will be distributed this coming week.

Haiti and the entrenched business of the NGOs

“There are plenty of reasons why countries have made mistakes. Often their decisions are driven by a particular interest group or a coalition of them whose short-term gains stand at odds with the nation’s long-term interest. Some interest groups have captured countries and dragged them down, some have been resisted,” said Alan Beattie in False Economy.

Martha Stewart, Macy’s CEO in Haiti looking for ways to expand Haitian handcraft sales in US

Martha Stewart, Macy’s top executive and a high-end fashion designer landed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Wednesday to do a little shopping.

$35 million grant for Haiti’s electricity sector - IDB

The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $35 million grant to support Haiti’s efforts to modernize its energy sector and improve the financial and operational management of the state power company, Eléctricité d’Haïti (EDH).

Inter-American Development Bank or IDB approves grant for Northern Industrial Park in Haiti

The Inter-American Development Bank announced the approval of a $55 million grant to help finance the construction of an industrial park designed to employ tens of thousands of workers in northern Haiti.