Laura Trevelyan and the gathering momentum for reparations
by Rashmee
Posted on March 17, 2023
News that longtime BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has presented her last @BBCWorld News America show …
Read MoreBarbados may give energy to reparations case, which is as much about politics as money
by Rashmee
Posted on March 15, 2023
I was reminded of a Financial Times piece on reparations (paywall) when I heard that …
Read MoreAmerica’s record on Haiti and Biden’s right to be at the Queen’s funeral – II
by Rashmee
Posted on September 18, 2022
US president Joe Biden is key to our discussion of the rightness or wrongness of …
Read MoreAmerica’s record on Haiti: Should Biden be on that good-to-go list for Queen’s funeral?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 17, 2022
Shouldn’t Joe Biden be on the lengthening list of leaders that human rights champions want …
Read MoreHaiti chérie: not unlucky but unprepared
by Rashmee
Posted on September 1, 2021 / open Democracy
Poor infrastructure and governance add to the woes of a country laid low by a …
Read MoreThere is just enough to yoke Afghanistan and Haiti together
by Rashmee
Posted on August 15, 2021
It is hard to think the chaos and pain engulfing two countries where I have …
Read MoreWhat Haiti could learn from the success story of Bangladesh
by Rashmee
Posted on July 21, 2021 / The National
The aftermath of the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise has made apparent the country’s …
Read MoreInside the most cursed country in the world: Haiti
by Rashmee
Posted on July 18, 2021 / The New European
The murder of its president in his own home is yet another chapter in Haiti’s …
Read MoreHaiti doesn’t need the world to be hands-off, but with hands stretched out to save it from falling
by Rashmee
Posted on July 16, 2021
/ LANGUAGE In the aftermath of the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise, the usual …
Read MoreWhat’s happening in Haiti?
by Rashmee
Posted on July 13, 2021 / open Democracy
The 7 July assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, has thrown the country into …
Read MoreRashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK