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  • 300 households in rural Haiti have been equipped with clean energy from Okra Solar’s Mesh-Grid technology

    July 27, 2022

    The Haiti-based Off-Grid Electricity Fund (OGEF), co-financed by the World Bank has equipped around 300 households in rural Haiti with clean energy from Okra Solar’s Mesh-Grid technology. Source: Okra Solar 

  • The latest Haiti earthquake was more powerful than the devastating quake in 2010

    August 17, 2021

    The earthquake that struck Haiti on Saturday morning occurred on the same system of faults as the one that devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, in January 2010. And the previous quake almost certainly made this one more likely to occur. Both quakes struck on an east-west fault line at the convergence of two tectonic plates, large segments of the […]

  • Assassination of Haitian Leader Highlights Nation’s Monopoly-Dominated Economy

    July 21, 2021

    The killing of President Jovenal Moïse took place against a backdrop of elite power, anticompetitive policies, and the U.S. doing little to create open markets. The power vacuum and dangerous instability in the Francophone nation result from many factors, but the American media ignore big ones, including state capture by elites, a grim monopolism that […]

  • SDG Index 2021: How did Caribbean countries perform?

    June 15, 2021

    Released annually, the Sustainable Development Report is a key resource for tracking countries’ progress towards achievement of the SDGs which are part of the 2030 Agenda for Development agreed to by UN Member States, including those in the Caribbean, in 2015. For those Caribbean countries ranked, Cuba was the highest with a rank of 49 […]

  • World Bank provides funds for agriculture resiliency in Haiti, flood risk management in Guyana

    December 10, 2020

    The World Bank has approved more than US$33 million for two Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries to further develop the agricultural sector and flood risk management.   Source

  • World Bank Provides Funds for Sustainable Renewable Energy in Haiti

    November 4, 2020

    The World Bank said it’s upping its financing of the Haiti Renewable Energy for All Project to scale up investments in order to expand and improve access to electricity for health infrastructure, households, businesses and community services.   Source

  • Haiti makes big moves for rural solar mini-grids

    September 10, 2020

    The Haitian Government launched a new program for the development of privately led mini-grids in Haiti. PHARES (Programme Haïtien d’Accès des communautés Rurales à l’Energie Solaire – Haitian Program for Access to Solar Energy in Rural communities) is a bottom-up supported by both IDB and World Bank. The program provides subsidies to private developers/operators to […]

  • Haiti Suspends Payments to State-Run Energy Company

    February 12, 2020

    Haitian Finance Minister Joseph Jouthe confirmed that the government has suspended US$7 million in monthly subsidies to Électricité d’Haïti (EDH). According to Jouthe, the state-run energy company should be able to secure loans. EDH is currently owed $230 million dollars, 60% of that from residential customers. Source

  • Trinidad and Haiti among islands receiving UAE support for climate-resilient energy projects

    January 16, 2020

    The UAE-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund (UAE-CREF) has entered the second cycle of its $50 million three-year plan to build climate-resilient renewable energy projects in 16 Caribbean nations. It said it has successfully completed new development and funded agreements for the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guyana, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname. The […]

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