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Submitted by Steven Kaszab

Will the declaration of a three month national emergency clear up Haiti’s Problems? I think not. Let us have a look at the many hurdles this Island Nation needs to repair/fix?

1. Gangs rule the night and most of the day throughout Haiti, but especially in urban centers.

2. Police, military and most civil authorities are high underfunded, understaffed.

3. Corruption is a tradition in Haiti effecting the Islands functions civil, military, security & Political.

4. The agricultural sector is so poorly managed it has placed the island under threatened of famine. 

5. Most Civil and regional governments are fraught with corruption, criminality and mismanagement.

6. The Police Force is limited in its ability to fight crime, particularly gangland operations. 

7. Hamas and other Cartels run operations throughout the Island.

8. Public Moral is at an all time low because of the continual mismanagement of the civil authority.

9. All forms of energy are either stolen, seized or under protection of criminal organizations.

10. Hospitals, Medical Clinics and Schools are at their limit. Stress and mental health issues abound.

11. Transportation hubs are prime targets of both foreign corporations and gangland lead institutions. 

12. The Population is shrinking, its economy imploding and finances dwindling. 

It has been said that the world must not only feel the pain of Haiti but also witness its hope. Really? Hope never feeds the kids, pays the bills or protects the neighborhood from thugs. Haiti is resilient yet may need to be dragged to experience its potential and future greatness. 

Haiti once flourished. Unfortunately that was during the Colonial Era. All monies flowed to Europe or a few bank accounts. Haiti’s everyman was destitute, and remains so today. Most every business is forced to pay protection monies to one cartel or another. Perhaps Haitians should do one of two things…

a. realize their situation and institute a revolutionary process that would cleanse the government, society and the corporate sector of all corruption, self interest and foreign involvement.

b. Invite a Colonial Power to rule on high and in exchange establish a limited democracy with peaceful streets and plentiful employment for all. Is it wrong to invite America, China, the EU or even Canada to the table and surrender certain rights in order to establish a prosperous peace for the next generation?

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10 responses to “Haiti: Self Management is Not Working”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Expect these scenes, and worse, throughout all of so-called Western Europe very soon.

    For the extreme poverty which has always been the lived reality for the White people shall, and weee say shall, be returning.

    Indeed, those levels of poverty were only overcome once White people violently invaded most of the world.

    Instead of this here writer opining about the affects of the crimes of White people, especially the French and Americans, but White people more generally, he should pay some attention to the fruits of wrath which are now engulfing the very people who birthed his spiritless renderings.

  2. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Pacha
    “….he should pay some attention to the fruits of wrath which are now engulfing the very people who birthed his spiritless renderings.”
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Talking about the EXTREMELY BUSY “Mother Karma… ”
    Bushie was worried that Trump had exported your black donkey to Guatemala … or further.

    Good to hear that you are still with us … and still vex…

    Yup!!
    Time is short…
    After reparations are completed for the 1300-year-long Trans-Sahara evil against God’s ORIGINAL peoples, the various agendas for the more recent demonic travesties such as the Trans Atlantic and subsequent cruelties that were inflicted will be sudden and intense…

    France seems to have drawn first straw…. LOL blames jellyfish.

    Karma is a canine of the feminine variety….
    …and time is short.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    Unfortunately the problem in Haiti has mushroomed to a level that appears to be impossible for the region to cope. And with Trump in office it is unlikely the international community will support in any meaningful way.

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Jamaica 2025 election

    ANDREW HOLNESS’ announcement of September 3 as Jamaica’s election day has provided the Caribbean with a useful gauge to assess the region’s future directions. The election is important for two main reasons.

    The first relates to Holness’ political longevity and the consolidating of his impact on Jamaica’s political life. Understanding Holness’ ideological worldview, his perspective of his role as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and his policy emphases over the last ten years, will provide important insights into the post-election possibilities.

    The second, related, but equally important political consequence of the election pertains to whether the new leader of the People’s National Party (PNP), Mark Golding, can present a development programme that simultaneously challenges the Holness package and advances the traditional social democratic values of the PNP.

    From his earliest emergence as JLP leader, Holness adopted an unapologetic posture of moving Jamaica more squarely into line with western capitalist, private sector driven, neo-liberal economic development.

    An “average” student of economics at best, he adopted the “textbook” version.

    In his zeal to demonstrate his affinity to pro-Western economic and foreign policy objectives, Holness felt it necessary to adopt sometimes avowedly anti-Caribbean perspectives, such as his insistence on an alternative to the CCJ, or his abandonment of Venezuelan oil investments at the behest of the hegemonic power. He also famously declared himself as opposing the “politics of poverty” which in his view, was being peddled by the PNP through their self-definition as a party for the poor and the powerless.

    Going into the election, therefore, Holness’ entire platform is based on highlighting Jamaica’s economic transformation.

    A critical unresolved question leading up to the election is the capacity of the current Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding to overturn the Holness package and offer an alternative. Currently, the main published poll suggests a slight lead for Holness but within the margin of error, with suggestions that Golding is closing the gap from previous months.

    The challenge for Golding, however, is his failure to advance an ideological perspective consistent with the PNP’s social democracy and one sufficiently refined to seperate himself from Holness. So far, Golding is a little more than a PNP version Holness, with less ideological commitment. He is more of a technocrat “learning” how to be a social-democrat while Holness is a true believer in his right-wing politics. Golding is the typical, “coached” and “prepared’ politician learning to cut a posture for the sake of winning an election.

    When taken as a whole, there is little hope that the coming election will bring fundamental change to Jamaica. If Holness wins, it will be a continuation of the last ten years and the cementing of the current model. If Golding wins, it will be a PNP version of Holness, perhaps with less justifications for the pro-business emphasis.

    Tennyson Joseph is Associate Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. Email tjoe2008@live.com

    Source: Nation

  5. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Still looking to the white devils for help in Haiti???? When has that ever been their goal?????

    Hahahaha! My son often says I have psychic powers. I summoned the “The Vexed One” only yesterday just by thinking about him.

  6. wargeneral Avatar
    wargeneral

    @David For all the talk about Holness aligning with “western capitalist, private sector driven, neo-liberal economic development”, I expect Holness and the JLP to win a resounding victory for a third term on September 3rd. If understand the history of Jamaica’s socioeconomic development since the 1970’s you would appreciate what Holness and the current JLP have been able to achieve. It’s is not that The JLP administration has been able to reduce Jamaica’s Debt to GDP ratio from 140% in 2013 to 69% in 2024 but what that fiscal management has allowed them to do. Improve social housing programmes, road infrastructure in once forgotten areas, public transportation and construction of new hospitals. All this is happening with unemployment at record lows, driven by record levels of private sector investment.

    Like every country in the world, Jamaica has been hit by the global inflationary spiral of the last few years, there has been complaints and unease about the rising cost of living. However, the improved job market and gradually rising wages, (including the increase in the minimum wage) balance out the situation.

    The problem with many older Caribbean men is that they still cling to ideologically driven analysis in a rapidly changing world. This is an outdate approach which ignores contemporary realities.

    China is run by what is called a “communist party” but in reality it is one of the most “capitalist” countries in the world.
    José “Pepe” Mujica in Uruguay was a self described “socialist” but his Finance minister would describe as capitalist.

    Times have changed, and most people understand that you can’t build a house on shaky ground.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @wargeneral

    There is no doubt Jamaica has been ‘improving’ its economic situation. The argument though if it is at the expense of watering down its foreign policy as it concerns Haiti for example. It is the reason Joseph’s article piqued the interest.

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/rojWh6oSQx4?si=BW7xLSbdYYc4an53

    Truly Bushie!

    Seems like there are no forward gears here. Inspite of the introduction of Professor Jemima Pierre and Haití Liberte this location seems destined to be in the mire of the rinse and repeat of negative, cyclical, narratives about Afrikan peoples as well-ingrained within popular consciousness and for which the likes of a Steven Kaszab represent a lazy but comfortable oft retreat.

    Elsewhere, Jamaica has been hailed as doing better economically. The irony is that that very Jamaica over recent years was under the various stages of states of emergency. That is not to be mentioned.

    And of course there are many, many, other places which are vastly more violent than Haití ever was. Nobody will speak of them.

    Then there are the Caricom and Afrikan countries. Including Barbados under Mottley and Kenya, three of their soldiers dying recently in Haití. Countries used by Western interests to continue the centuries old subjugation of Haití.

    Need weeeee go on?

    Listen to Professor Pierre!

  9. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Then we have a White, racist, criminal in their House who has his instruments of war in the Caribbean Sea.

    A Trumpian criminal who dares to put a price on the head of a duly elected leader in Venezuela. These people here have no time for these types of interrogations of the Devil in our midst.

    This action of warfare shall not interfere with notions about zones of peace and the Caribbean as some civilizational state or region even as the AU, which is far less than perfect, has declared the Caribbean as the sixth region of Afrika. But Shiite talk will never end here, from idiots.

    The only silver lining within the war clouds which the Caribbean was always central to is the current ineptitude of White people to properly engage in a modern all-arms military conflict.

    We again warn all and sundry that if the tan-man in the House of White people goes near Venezuelan coasts that his outdated fleet will be sank forthwith. They represents coffins!

    The Yemenese just defeated America. America, does not have hypersonic weapons. It has no defenses against these arsenals. This was why Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world could have defeated Trump and his racist Zionist partners.

    An attack on Venezuela could well mark the beginning of the end of a dying system of Whiteness!

  10. joyfullygladiatord06194a364 Avatar
    joyfullygladiatord06194a364

    Declaring a three-month national emergency alone won’t solve Haiti’s problems, because the crisis is rooted in deeper issues like gang control, weak institutions, corruption, food insecurity, and failing public services that require long-term structural reforms.

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