Haitian Diaspora News

After spending more than 35 years living between the Bahamas in the United States, this old Haitian lady thanked her fellow countrymen for shattering her dream of retiring in Haiti.

"I worked so hard for this; built the big house and everything. Now I can't go back," she said.

"The saddest part is that our own brothers and sisters in Haiti are the ones who turned the country into an unlivable hell," she continued. "And sometimes I don't know if I should blame the thugs with the guns or the thugs who hire them."

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During a conversation with my cousin in New York, he predicted that the money transfers coming from the Haitian diaspora in the form of remittances may be depleted within the next 10 to 15 years and he give a very good reason for that.

What reason you ask?

Here's what my cousin said:

"It is our parents who are sending money to Haiti right now," my cousin said, "it's not even us."

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Many Haitians living in Haiti are shocked when they realize there is less money transfers coming from the Diaspora than before. Some, if not most, in Haiti rely heavily on diaspora Haitians sending remittances back home. With less money coming in now to spend in a country where prices seem to be going up every time the US dollar sneezes, it means more problems.

We spoke to a few people in the diaspora to try to understand why they are unable to send the remittances they used to send to Haiti before. There are a few reasons for that:

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Did I read this correctly? Eighty five percent of college graduates in Haiti leave the country. Talk about a brain drain!

When people leave a country that is called emigration. But when skilled individuals emigrate from a country like Haiti, that leads to loss of valuable human capital. That is called Haiti's brain drain.

What do OUR LEADERS have to do in order to get these Haitian college graduates to come back to Haiti to serve the nation?

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There are young women in Haiti who have fallen in love with Haitian men in the diaspora. They think they hit the jackpot. They think they found the love of their lives only to discover later that these Diaspora Haitian men are living double lives.

Many of these diaspora Haitian men are married. They have a wife in New York, Miami or Boston. These gigolos make the vulnerable Haitian woman back in Haiti think she is the only one.

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In the early 1960s, hundreds of Haitian professionals, including teachers, professors, engineers, and doctors, embarked on a journey to Africa. While this migration marked a significant effort to support the growth of African nations, it simultaneously led to a brain drain from Haiti, impacting its development on multiple fronts.

Migration of Haitian professionals from Haiti to Congo and the brain drain it left behind

Patrice Lumumba, the visionary leader who became the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1960, was not only committed to the growth and progress of his own nation but also recognized the power of international collaboration. During his presidency, Lumumba made a call for francophone academics of African descent to come in and contribute to the development of Congo.

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We can't help but notice that Haitians in the Diaspora, especially in the United States, are feeling the pinch of what everyone clearly identifies as a recession. Money is scarce and the price of everything is going up.

Rent has gone up. Americans are driving older cars these days and are not in a rush to exchange their old car for a new one.

The price for groceries, my God!

I saw the price of a small can of carnation milk at a Publix grocery store in Florida I wanted to take a picture and send to my sister in the Domincan Republic. She thinks it's all glitter and gold here.

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400 Mawozo, the powerful Haiti gang who kidnapped 17 American and Canadian missionaries wants to get paid USD $1,000,000 for each hostage. No more nor less.

This is the information Haiti's Justice minister, Liszt Quitel, released to the American news media.

All of us in the Haitian diaspora who live in the United States, we know for a fact that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists. Unless they don't consider the kidnapping gangs in Haiti terrorists.

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Up to 17 American missionaries have been kidnapped in Haiti by gang members Saturday, Haitian officials said. New York Times, CNN, everyone is talking about it.

According to CNN, 14 of the kidnapped American citizens are adults and three of them are minors.

Haiti news is reporting that the kidnapping was done by a group called "400 Mawozo," a heavily armed gang that has been terrorizing the city of Croix-des-Bouquets and areas surrounding it in the outskirts of the capital.

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Radio Caraibes journalist Robert Celine AKA Bob C. is advising Haitians in the diaspora not to come to Haiti right now because of insecurities that is ravaging the country and causing the lives of just about anybody.

Bob C. spoke about a young Haitian man from diaspora who wanted to spend his birthday in Haiti recently who was just been killed by the bullets of armed gangs in the Artibonite region of Haiti.

One day after his report, Haiti radio news reported another young diaspora woman, native of Lascahobas, Centre department of Haiti, who was either kidnapped or murdered.

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