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Why small-budget films are capturing global attention in the streaming era.
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Culture
National Radio and Television have long ceased to be the exclusive heart of public communication. The media landscape has fragmented, digitized, and disintermediated.
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Drawing by Feancisco Silva
Culture
The devil is in her eyes And God In her smile With all my Cartesian being Between the devil and good God To hell with my reason Before my passion To give flesh to my land. Wherever I hide Her voice is my dwelling Wherever I exile myself In my heart beats my island. When it
Culture
By Jean Mapou PORT-AU-PRINCE.— Haitian authorities have officially declared Monday, February 16 and Tuesday, February 17, 2026, as 'public and non-working holidays' across the national territory for Carnival, one of the country's most emblematic cultural events.
Culture
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) expressed, this January 27, 2026, its deep concern over the turbulence currently shaking the Haitian executive, at a moment deemed particularly critical for the country's future.
Culture
By Francisco Silva Standing in a coffin, the Haitian people celebrate the year-end holidays. Around them, a cemetery strewn with their own bones recalls the price already paid. This image illustrates a stark reality: in a country where insecurity rages and death lurks daily, the celebration continues.
Culture
Dear Ancestors, On this day after the 222nd anniversary of the foundational act by which you broke the chains of slavery, colonization, racial segregation, and imposed upon the world the existence of a free and independent Black people, I write to you with solemnity, anger, and fidelity.
Culture
Introduction: Art that reveals the essential. December 10, 2025, will remain etched in Haiti's cultural and social history. The inscription of Haitian Konpa on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list illustrates a fundamental truth: where politics falters, art elevates.
Culture
By Jean Venel Casséus Haitian popular dance music, Compas, has just been admitted as an intangible world heritage by UNESCO. This carries considerable symbolic weight, as a creation stemming from Haitian musical genius gains access to a universal space of legitimation where cultures are recognized as contributors to the world's collective imagination.
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To El Pozo, to Matania… And to my son who played football with the children of Koridò Prizon Fanm!
