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Is Haiti Making a Comeback?

May 22, 2015Add comment

I’m sitting in the most famous hotel in the Caribbean. It’s showing it’s age after 120 years but Mick Jagger brought Bianca here, Charles Addams used it as inspiration for his eerie cartoons, Bill and Hilary spent their honeymoon here and even Jimmy Buffet slept here. It’s a little run down oasis right smack in the middle of Port Au Prince and...

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The Curious Case of the Haitian Dognapping

May 20, 2015Add comment

Eric was still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as we sat in the hotel bar drinking a Prestige stubby. He paced back and forth and was noticeably upset about his missing dog.” It’s just a mutt, but it’s the friendliest dog you’ve ever seen”,he said. There had been a little shendig the night before and the dog had been wagging his tail...