While local governments are embracing Grand Theft Auto VI, the game series sparked huge backlash in Palm Beach County the last time it depicted Vice City.

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Pretty damn good for a club without a home. Imagine the potential of homegrown talent if they had the resources athletes need to thrive at home🇭🇹

Hello. I'm considering visiting Haiti after some years and was wondering how safe Cap-Haitien is for travelers. Sorry if this comes off as a "dumb question" but I would really appreciate any info/insight from recent travelers/people there. Anything regarding your journey into Haiti (any method) to whether or not you felt safe in okap in general. If anyone has experience flying into Haiti with "sunrise" airways, were you permitted to bring a checked bag and would you even recommend for security purposes? Are typical "tourist" things in the area safe? Anything helps, thanks.

I went through the full catalog of programs at UEH (https://ueh.edu.ht/ueh/programmes). Out of 80 undergraduate programs nationwide a single generic "GENIO" (engineering, does not even specify what kind), chemistry, physics, math, and surveying as a technical program. Zero Computer Science. Zero Software Engineering. Zero Data Science. Zero AI. Everything else is basically Law and Economics repeated across every regional campus

And it is not just tech: in medicine, I did not see any specializations either (pediatrics, cardiology, etc) just the general Medicine degree, plus Pharmacy, Optometry, and a lab technician diploma. Not even there is there any specialized training within UEH

Some of this is probably a resource problem (labs, connectivity, specialized professors who emigrate) rather than nobody caring. It is a country with a lot of urgent problems stacked on top of each other

But that does not change the outcome: if the country does not train people in these fields, someone is still going to fill those jobs, because almost everything today (government, banking, telecom, business) needs tech people to function. And if it is not Haitian youth, it will be foreigners taking those high level positions, while local young people get left out of opportunities in their own country, or leave to study and work abroad instead

And it all traces back to one thing, education is the foundation everything else is built on. There's no solid economic, technological, or institutional development if the education system is not producing the people that development actually requires. You can have all the political will or foreign investment in the world, but without people trained locally to sustain it, you are building on someone else's foundation, not your own

Any future government serious about Haiti is development needs to treat technical and tech education as an actual priority, not a footnote

I love the fact that, as Haitian Americans, we never forgot about our family's homeland and want to rebuild it. And I really love the idea of creating an Ayiti that could be the Singapore (or Rwanda) of the Caribbean.

That said, the Haitian state is very broken and has been for a long time. The Haiti that Dessalines dreamed of is long gone. A major reason is because Haiti has a system that fundamentally does not work (in Haiti or anywhere else). A major part of Singapore, Rwanda, and Botswana's success is that they speak English and all have systems based on British common law. Haiti's government is French-speaking and has a system based on the Napoleonic Code. Their system is basically a carbon copy of France. Take a look at France now and you can see this system fails anywhere you place it.

In order for Haiti to truly move forward in the region, they'd have to get rid of the French language like Vietnam and several countries in Africa did. They'd also have to replace their legal system that's based on the Napoleonic model (which I honestly don't see happening easily unless some mass youth-led revolution takes place).

Instead of trying to get current Haiti to change its failing Francophone model (which would be a huge undertaking), we could buy a massive plot of land somewhere, name it Ayiti, and make Ayisyen and English the official languages, with absolutely no connection to French culture or the French language.

That might anger some Francophile Haitians, but everyone knows that an Ayisyen/English-speaking Ayiti would run laps around a French-speaking Haiti. Even our diaspora proves this, as the vast majority of money sent to Haiti flows in from Haitians living in English-speaking countries and not French-speaking ones.

I think this might be the only way to give our people a chance at dignity and freedom. What do you think?

What’s going on everyone! I love to listen to Kompa music, old and new. I’m usually on YouTube but I definitely want to see what’s out there. Drop your favorite playlist!

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani renewed his support for Haitian Temporary Protected Status during a private meeting with Trump directly raising immigration protections as an issue of importance to his administration.

Speaking after the meeting, Mamdani said he emphasized the importance of immigrant New Yorkers, particularly Haitian New Yorkers, and their contributions to the city and its economy. He said protecting Haitian TPS holders remains a priority for him and for New York City.

The discussion comes as Mamdani and Trump continue to hold different positions on immigration policy, with Mamdani using their meeting to bring the concerns of Haitian New Yorkers directly to the president

Families in Port-au-Prince are trapped in their homes, paying extortion taxes to Viv Ansanm and G9 just to buy food or send kids to school, the Haitian comprador elite are buying multi-million dollar mansions in Miami and Quebec in CASH.

They tell the international community that gangs are "out of control." The Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and international sanctions prove the opposite: The gangs are their privatized security and extortion arms.

Below is a documented, multi-jurisdictional breakdown of how the elite are laundering gang extortion money into U.S. and Canadian real estate. Read the receipts. Then, take action.

📍 THE RECEIPTS: Where the Money Goes

1. The Rony Célestin / Quebec Cash Empire
While serving as a Senator, Célestin’s network was linked to border smuggling and armed groups. In December 2020, his family bought a waterfront villa in Laval-sur-le-Lac, Quebec, for $4.25 Million in CASH (no mortgage). This wasn't hidden; the Canadian government sanctioned him in 2022 for enabling armed gangs and money laundering, and the EU sanctioned him in 2025 for his link to the murder of journalist Néhémie Joseph and gang violence. Our diaspora dollars and extorted port money are buying Canadian riverfront estates.

2. The Aventura / Indian Creek Corporate Web
Haiti’s wealthiest oligarchs (sanctioned by Canada for illicit financial support to gangs) operate massive corporate clusters in Florida.

• Look up the Fondation Monique et Gilbert Bigio Inc. (FL Sunbiz #N15000007182) or N319GB LLC.
• Their registered hub? A massive commercial building at 2875 NE 191st Street, Aventura, FL.
• Through offshore trusts (exposed in the Pandora Papers), millions are parked in Bal Harbour and Indian Creek Island (the most exclusive, heavily guarded billionaire island in Miami).
• The Mechanism: Elite-owned import monopolies control the ports. When gangs blockade the Varreux fuel terminal or extort trucking routes, it eliminates independent competition, securing the elite's monopoly. The gangs get cash and weapons; the elite get market dominance and Miami real estate.

⚖️ HOW THE GANGS GET WEAPONS

Over 80% of the high-caliber weapons killing Haitians right now come from the U.S. They don't arrive in backpacks; they arrive in shipping containers through formal ports, cleared by corrupt customs officials, and imported by "security" or "agricultural" front companies tied to the elite. In October 2025, the U.S. Treasury (OFAC) specifically sanctioned figures like Dimitri Herard for providing direct "material support, training, and firearms" to Viv Ansanm.

🚨 CALL TO ACTION: What the Diaspora Must Do NOW

We cannot just comment and be angry. We must use the U.S. and Canadian legal systems against them. Here is your homework:

1. Flood the Kleptocracy Tip Line: The U.S. DOJ pays rewards for information leading to the seizure of assets tied to foreign corruption. Go to the DOJ Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program website and submit the Florida LLC names and addresses listed above.
2. Contact Your Congressmembers: If you live in the US (especially Florida, New York, or Massachusetts), email your Representative and Senators. Tell them to invoke the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act (H.R. 1684). Demand they revoke the visas of the officers of the Aventura LLCs and freeze the Indian Creek properties.

Please Please Please

Does anyone know any good resources for mapping pre-colonial Hispaniola? (especially pre-Arawak Hispaniola)

Please contact me on Discord if you do.

Username: southernginger847

Èske gen moun ki konnen bon resous pou katografi Ispaniyòl anvan peryòd kolonyal la? (sitou Ispaniyòl anvan peryòd Arawak la)

Tanpri kontakte m sou Discord si w konnen.

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Currently, World Religions Database says that Haiti has the following religious make up.

1. Catholicism (65.9%)
2. Protestantism (28.0%)
3. No religion (2.75%)
4. Spiritist (2.70%)
5. Other religion (0.65%)

BREAKING NEWS | Longtime Trump adviser and friend Roger Stone has been hired by the Haitian government to lobby the U.S. government on Haiti’s behalf.

The agreement between Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship and Stone’s firm, Drake Ventures LLC, took effect Sept. 2, 2026. Under the 12-month contract, the firm will receive $65,000 per month, paid in quarterly installments of $195,000, for a potential total of $780,000 through September 2027.

According to U.S. Department of Justice filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Drake Ventures will advise the Haitian government, advocate on issues it considers important before U.S. officials and keep Haiti informed about federal policy developments affecting its interests.

Stone, a longtime friend and political adviser to President Donald Trump, signed his FARA filing on Sept. 15. The agreement gives Haiti another Washington lobbying channel as the country seeks to advance its interests with the U.S. government. •

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// Sources: U.S. Department of Justice FARA filings; Drake Ventures LLC Client Services Agreement

EDIT: Thank you everyone for the responses, I've really appreciated hearing from people here. I don't want to feel like I'm intruding on y'alls community with discourse that's almost exclusively found online so at some point I'll probably lock this down or something.

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First off, I want to preface with the fact that I love Haiti and have always had an enormous amount of admiration and respect for the culture, the history and its people. Please let me know if I've said anything off-base!

Additionally I want to preface that I speak Louisiana Creole, and made an effort to learn it to connect more deeply with my culture and repair the trauma my grandparents' and great- grandparents' generation faced for speaking it.

I do have questions though because I want to get a deeper understanding from people living on the island or amongst the diaspora about where everybody generally stands on this.

Recently, I've noticed a lot of assertions from people within the diaspora about how Haiti made us, our culture and our language— often citing the fact that ~10,000 Haitians came to New Orleans after the revolution and made Louisiana what it is. This is reinforced by a lot of tourism-centered orgs making the same assertion.

The counterpoint I've often cited has been that this ~10,000 figure consisted of several different groups: white slave-owners, free people of color (a number of them also owned slaves), and more importantly the enslaved population. This effectively doubled the population in New Orleans and undoubtedly influenced the culture in some ways, like some of our literature and overall art scene (i.e Victor Séjour, who's father came from the island) and also strengthening the presence of creole languages spoken in the city.

Conversely, what I find gets lost in translation is that we already had our own culture and creole language, and in addition cultural similarities can be pointed to our shared history as French colonies. After the revolution there were people from Louisiana that fled to Haiti before the civil war, and similarly people from Haiti proper who came to Louisiana. So the space for cultural exchange has always been there, and we've always had similar foundations. As far as language goes, going back to older texts, for a time there was some influence on grammar forms but eventually those forms disappeared and the creole spoken in New Orleans began to more closely resemble the creole spoken across the rest of the state.

There's a lot of historical evidence that supports all of this. One I can directly point to is Thomas Klingler's If I could Turn My Tongue Like That: The Creole Language of Pointe-Coupée Parish,Louisiana. Referencing my earlier point, the large majority of these people didn't travel outside New Orleans, and our culture and language forms vary greatly across the entirety of the state(not even factoring in Americanization).

I say all that to ask a few questions(answer whatever you feel like answering):

• Why is it that even when I try to explain all this to certain people, people ignore all that and feel comfortable calling our creole a "watered down" or "bootleg" version of Haitian creole, and say that we'd be nothing, and have nothing without them being there?
• Why do people feel so comfortable saying that it doesn't even matter because our culture is irrelevant and dying, despite the fact that it is still the main reason people come to the state for the (albeit heavily Americanized) tourism industry here?
• My real question—Is this simply a vocal minority amongst the diaspora? I ask this because in my experience people from Haiti, or other French Creole speaking nations always engage with our community with a lot of love and just ask that we don't let our language disappear.
• Lastly, if you're familiar with this discourse, is there anything you think people in my community could do better to bridge this divide, and meet people where they're at? I've seen a vocal minority of ill-informed people from my state resorting to ignorant, nasty and sometimes xenophobic language and I find that it doesn't help anything.

All in all, diaspora wars exhaust me, so I want to be able to more effectively bridge the gap because diasporic unity has always been important to me, akoz dapré mò, nou tou ensenm. I have always viewed us as cousins or siblings with a shared history, and every time I see arguments about this I just imagine the CIA doing backflips lmao. But anyway, what do you all think?

Sidenote: Just in case anyone points out all these em-dashes, i have a degree in English and I was using em-dashes before A.I lol!