Haiti Minimum Wage Protest, not the time nor the place for it

On December 10, 2013, hundreds of Haitian workers in assembly industries demonstrated in Port-au-Prince to demand 500 gourdes as minimum wage. As it is often the case in Haiti, protest often means violence and as you know, the world is watching, potential investors are watching and as the Martelly-Lamothe is working hard to open the door for business in Haiti, we are once again engaging in self-destructive behaviors.

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Mezanmi, fok nou sispan detri tet pa nou oui! Si nou vle payi sa mache, se pa pa violans non ke li prale mache. Si nou vle ke Ayisyem pa ale an Dominikani pou ale fè Rasist Dominikin imilye nou plis, se pa nan kraze brize non!

The protest conducted this week regarding regarding the minimum wage is not different. I heard that the protest was so intense that at one point, some people in the crowd broke into the gate of a factory and vandalized the place in an attempt to convince the workers at the factory to come out and join them.
Haitians continue to sacrifice themselves with these mass protests.

Mwen tande ginyin on bann gro oficiel ki te ape sipote manifestasyon sa. Ginyin minm ki ba moun yo pankat ak foto yo pou yo pote nan manifestasyon-an. Yon sel bagay mwen kapab di:

Ofisyel sa yo pa ginyin minm interet ak nou non!

Moun sa yo Ape fè ti pep fè tintin, pandan ke yap regle iinteret pa yo

Anpil nan yo ap profite de sitiasyon sa pou yo regle koze yo oiu mezanmi. Ginyin nan yo se sou tet malery, je pete ke yap komanse campagn yo moun ko

Pa bliye, eleksyon nan rout

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Raymond Lafontant says...

not right.

all protests from union turn what is called "violent".

this can not be against the business climate.

Haiti should work on political uncertainty (in its real sense)and its sectorial competitively more seriously and discussions on minimum wage will not be a hot

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Pete Morisseau says...

Nèg dessalines kotel soti si oupagen anyen pouw di fèmin
Bouch ou. oupale drôg pabliyé US DEA an

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Jacky Dessalines says...

MIN EN 2004, MAKOUT PAT KONN SAK RELE LA PAIX ...

KITE PAYS MARCHER...

YO PAT KONN SAK RELE TREVE ...

SE TE PREJUGER ..PASKE PRESIDENT SE TE YON MOUNN KI TE SORTI LAN YON TI PROVINCE...

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