Haiti

Our Posts about Haiti

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Saturday Video: Team with Timberland to Plant a Tree in Haiti

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So, how did you celebrate Arbor Day yesterday?
What, you didn’t know that the 140 year-old U.S. holiday in honor of trees always falls on the last Friday in April? Don’t feel bad. According to a recent study commissioned by Timberland, a good three-quarters of all Americans are in the dark about this greenest of good-intentioned days.
Luckily, Timberland is also giving us all an easy way to make up for the slight…and help rebuild Haiti in the process.

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Steve
Steve

Feed the Uncommon Caribbean Flickr Pool

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When Patrick and I sat down in a midtown Manhattan bar a little over a year ago to start planning what Uncommon Caribbean would eventually turn out to be, we both agreed that exceptional photography was a top priority. (Having really cool t-shirts was deemed important as well, but that’s a story for another time.)
Thankfully, Patrick is a pro photographer, as you’ve no doubt noticed in all of his posts (for further proof, click here), giving us a great foundation of images to draw from right from the start. I do my best to keep up with my semi-pro Olympus Pen camera as well, but we certainly don’t do it alone.

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Beth

UC Reader, Beth Santos, Works to Build a Better Haiti

Photo credit: Beth Santos

Editor’s Note: While the tragedy of the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan earlier this month remains fresh on everyone’s minds, the devastation born of last year’s earthquake in Haiti continues to present immense challenges for our Caribbean neighbors. UC reader, Beth Santos, is one of countless volunteers, educators and aid workers from around the world who continue to lend their talents and energies toward building a better Haiti for the future. Here, she shares an account from a recent visit to the country.
It’s 8am and I’m riding in the cab of an old white pickup truck, bumping over the sandy streets of Port-au-Prince.

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Steve
Steve

Friday Happy Hour: Prestige is Perfect Caribbean Beer for the Super Bowl

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If you’re alive and living in the U.S. today, then it’s a good bet you’re gearing up for the nation’s premier sporting event, unofficial national holiday and largest weekend orgy of overindulgence all rolled up in one. That’s right, people, Super Bowl Weekend is here!
Now, when it comes to overindulging for the Super Bowl, one drink stands above the rest: beer. If the Super Bowl is not the top beer-drinking “holiday” of the year in America (a dubious Neilsen survey says it isn’t by a long shot), then it’s certainly way up there.
Baseball and apple pie were then, drinking beer and watching football are now!

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Steve
Steve

My Very 1st Uncommon Travel Adventure, Voodoo & Haiti’s Haunted Cemeteries

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Patrick won’t remember this, but one of our very first trips together way back in the mid-70′s was to a destination that to this day remains one of the Caribbean’s most uncommon: Haiti. I was only about five years old and he was still in diapers, but it’s a trip I’ll never forget.
Coming from small and mostly rural St. Croix, the bustling streets of Port-au-Prince were a real eye-opener for me. I vividly recall certain things about our hotel (probably because it was the first I’d ever stayed in), the amazingly friendly staff and, most especially, the daily breakfast – it was the first time I ever saw or even heard of anyone putting fresh bananas on their corn flakes!

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Steve
Steve

Uncommon Beauty: Giving, Getting Relief in Haiti

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The massive earthquake that devastated much of Haiti may have occurred nine months ago, but the after effects are still being felt throughout the country as millions continue to struggle without homes, little food or access to basic services. The need for volunteers remains great, but as you can see, it’s not all work and no play for those heeding the call to help.
This shot is of an aid worker with a group called European Disaster Volunteers (EDV) enjoying a quiet respite from her work. The group is deployed in Haiti in conjunction with GrassRoots United (GRU), an international disaster response organization that provides resources and connectivity to groups looking to operate quickly in disaster environments.

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Steve
Steve

Friday Happy Hour: Support Haiti, Drink Rhum Barbancourt

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Today’s Friday Happy Hour drink of choice was inspired by faithful Uncommon Caribbean reader, Mike Moore.
Like us, Mike loves rum. He’s particularly keen on the sweet, sweet nectar found in the bottle pictured at left, Haiti’s Rhum Barbancourt.
Mike’s got good taste.
Barbancourt is made directly from sugar cane juice rather than the sugar cane by-product of molasses, a method similar to that employed in the production of the rhums agricole of Martinique. The result is a richer, more flavorful spirit more akin to a fine cognac.
Last week, when Mike went to his local South Florida liquor store, the check-out guy told him that the Barbancourt distillery was destroyed in January’s tragic earthquake and no one has an idea if or when it’ll come back.

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