Overview:
Residents near Fort-Liberté, the main city of the Northeast Department, demand that authorities open a new landfill and waste management center as trash accumulates around the site. A missing weighbridge, essential to its operations, keeps the donor-funded waste facility offline while trash piles up and health concerns grow in the city.
FORT-LIBERTÉ — More than four months after Haitian ...
The situation in Fort-Liberté reflects a broader pattern of systemic dysfunction in infrastructure projects, where bureaucratic inertia, alleged corruption, and lack of accountability converge to undermine public trust. The strongest version of this narrative highlights genuine community suffering—pollution, health risks, and economic harm—while acknowledging the complexity of implementing large-scale projects in resource-constrained environments. However, the absence of transparency around the ...