Converting Waste to Fertilizer (2024-04-04) This is the continuation of a series of HAMREC conferences to inform and educate our fellow Haitians. We are making such material available in our efforts to identify resources and disruptive technologies that can help Haiti. The of the conference:

Kanal la pap kanpe (Keep building the canal): Let’s engineer to last and sustain regional development.Our struggle to secure water resources, a case analysis  This article is based on solutions proposed during HAMREC’s Sept 23, 2023, live discussions. It is part of articles, podcasts, and conferences on economic justice and natural resource management. Haiti’s initiative to open a canal branching off the Massacre River is all over the news. According to the Miami Herald, the closure of the 220-mile border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti has been attributed to concerns over...

Haiti's Corruption Fight: Ethics Curriculum and Technological Convergence Adoption, a Case Analysis. "Corruption robs the poor" Joy Famador Written by HAMREC, Jul 27, 2023 The Miami Herald wrote on Aug 3, 2023, "Local residents reported that traders who want to cross the town of Liancourt with their goods must pay between 500 to 1,000 U.S. dollars to the police so that an armored tank of the National Police of Haiti can facilitate the crossing." This picture sums up bribery in Haiti. Corruption is the central impediment to development in low-income countries, where a select group of...

Operation "Bwa Kale" (Peeled Wood)   Is a violent popular justice movement the answer to Haiti's prayers? What a terrible question to ask to start an op-ed. Ironically, we are using prayer and violence in the same breath. We have come to a point where we commingle the sixth commandment rule found in the holy scriptures with violent self-defense for peace and longevity. Humans have violated the same law throughout history in the name of conquest and self-defense. "Thou shall not kill" has become an afterthought when oppressed peoples need freedom. To understand the population's anger,...