Telecommunication in Haiti

Today, the Haitian population is very little developed but the telecommunication is in important progress.

More than half of them have a cell phone and there are 318 radio stations whose 51 in Port-au-Prince.

In this town there are 36 television channel and 56 in the totality of the country.

Now, the telecom sector produces about $700 000 000 a year and takes on around 800 people. It’s a big figure compared to the weak GDP.

But the access to all of this in not guaranteed everywhere: in the North-East part of Haiti, there are few channels and limited radio diffusion.

 

CONSEQUENCE OF THE SEISM IN THEM DAILY LIFE

The seism in 2010 in Haiti had for consequence the loss of the livestock*¹ and of agricultural production which lead*² to the rise of the unemployment, and so more poverty. The price of

food increased too. And after if there are more poverty and the price of the food is more and more expensive, it leads to more malnutrition.

A big percentage of the Haitian population is in danger ! We can give financial assistance, but the easy way to help the population is even though*³ to give food with a long use-by-date to association like Action contre la fin, UNICEF, CCFD-Terre solidaire

Help Haiti ! They are worthy*⁴ ! They have been fighting with the consequences of the seism for six years now !

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*¹ livestock: le bétail

*² to lead: entraîner

*³ even though: quand même

*⁴ : They are worthy: Ils le méritent !

Celebrities take a stand

 

Everyone knows the original version of “We are the World” written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. This charitable song, released in 1985, was interpreted by “USA for Africa”, a group composed of many American stars who took a stand to support the action. The money was collected to fight against starvation in Ethiopia. But the problem is that horror is timeless and 25 years later, it’s Haiti which needs help in order to bring countless people out of the misery into which earthquakes plunged them. Another band of stars of all ages, (like Jimmy Fox said at the beginning of the video), decide to resume the song and to interpret it for Haiti. This new version is as touching as the previous one. The video includes “two main parts” which are shown alternately. The first part is when we can see singers like Miley Cirus, Justin Bieber, Céline Dion, Kanye West, Adam Levine, Pink and 32 others interpreting a sentence of the song one after the other. The other part is composed by troubling pictures of Haitians, smiles on their faces, who are amongst the ruins which cover every piece of ground. The words are as strong as in the first version. They encourage us to give, not only our money but also our heart to “these people who don’t have the right to suffer” because “we are the world” and we can’t keep on ignoring them and saying that someone will be able to help them better and that we can’t do something at our level. Everything can be done when we are united. Let us be the world, let us be Haitians and still today, they need our help so prove them that you want to “light their dark night”.

Link of the video: Here

Politic

The republic from Haiti knew a lively political system: today a temporary president, Jocelerme Privet, has been designated since14th February 2016.
The government knew a lot of political regimes without ever being able to implement a democratic system despite the 22 constitutions. But the system looks like a democratic one because of the powers it gives to the population.
There are 3 powers:
-The legislative power directed by the National Assembly which is made of two chambers: the Senate and the chamber of deputy.
-The executive power directed by the president (5 years), the prime minister and his cabinet.
-The judicial power directed by the courts.

If you want to know more about the politic situation in Haiti, a new article will be post soon!!

 

Service

 

To introduce business topics, we will organize a trilogy about the 3 main sectors for jobs in Haiti: service – farming – industry

 

Service -Farming- Industry

There are more than 10 million persons in Haiti. In this state, 55 % (5, 5 million) of the population works in services’ sector.

3 things you have to know about Haiti’s services

Before beginning you have to know that services’ sector include tourism too

• Services’ sector has increased from 5% to 60% of Haiti’s GDP in a few years
• About tourism, its indicator has never stopped increasing since 2009.In fact , between 2011 and 2014 the number of tourists has increased to 133%
• Since the earthquake in January 2010 Port Au Prince’s airport has been rebuilt and modernized. That allows the ease of Haiti’s communications net around the world

 

Translation:

Plus de 10 000 000 de personnes vivent à Haïti et 55% (5, 500 000) de la population travaillent dans le secteur des services.

3 choses à savoir sur le secteur tertiaire haïtien

Avant de commencer il faut savoir que le secteur tertiaire inclut également le tourisme

• Le secteur tertiaire est passé de moins de 5% à 60% du PIB en quelques années
• Au niveau du tourisme, son indicateur ne cesse d’augmenter. En effet, entre 2011 et 2014 le nombre de touristes a augmenté de 133%
• Depuis le tremblement de terre de janvier 2010, L’aéroport de la capitale Port au Prince a été reconstruit et modernisé. Cela facilite les réseaux de communications haïtiens vers le monde
• Pierre Sonnendrucker and Theo Alexandre