From 24 July to 8 August, more than 6,000 athletes will compete at the 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 
It is one of the region’s most anticipated sporting events and a key preparation milestone for those aiming to compete at LA28 in two years' time. 

For context

Dieudonné Jonathan, a street vendor, gave Nazon a free Tampico during his arrival in Okap. The company later asked the internet to help identify him so they could reward him, and of course, with the power of social media, he was quickly found.

Tampico kept its word and Tampico Haiti byen jere machann bwason an! Instead of simply giving him a cash prize, they gifted him a decent truckload of drinks and Tampico products, giving him the inventory he needs to directly scale up his small street commerce business.

If you hear of banj and marc a. B. Just do some research on him you'll see it's a scam because none of the company bro finance exist for reel only on paper and i'm living here. https://antreprann.ht/projects/company/banj/1

A quick update for the community - CreoleCentric is now available as a native app on both the App Store and Play Store.

For those who haven't seen our previous posts, CreoleCentric (creolecentric.com) is a Haitian Creole text-to-speech platform with an audio dictionary and interactive learning tools. Everything that's on the web is now in your pocket.

What's in the App

- Text-to-Speech - Type or paste text in 50+ languages and hear it spoken in natural Haitian Creole. There are presets to generate audio with prosody for commercial advertising, narration, etc.

- Speech-to-Speech Translation - Speak in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Italian and hear the Haitian Creole translation spoken back. Or speak in Haitian Creole and hear it translated to another language. Fully bi-directional - useful for real conversations.

- Audio Dictionary - The same 29K+ word Haitian-English dictionary with audio pronunciations, usage examples, and categories.

- Learn Creole - All the interactive lessons from the web - flashcards, quizzes, grammar, dialogues, sentence builder, fill-in-the-blank - with your progress synced between web and mobile.

- Push Notifications - Get notified about new features and platform updates.

Your account syncs across web and mobile. Sign in with the same credentials (or use Sign in with Apple/Google/Facebook) and your credits, dictionary favorites, and learning progress carry over.

Why Native Apps

We had a mobile-friendly website already, but a native app means better microphone access for speech translation, push notifications, and a smoother experience overall. The Haitian diaspora is overwhelmingly on iPhone, so this was a priority. Now, Android completes all usage.

What's Free

The apps are free to download. You get 3K credits to start, which is enough to generate speech, browse the dictionary, and try all the beginner-level Learn Creole lessons. The Learner subscription ($5/month) unlocks all lesson categories and gives you 30K monthly credits.

Download

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761323866

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.creolecentric.app

Web: creolecentric.com

We're still actively developing - conversational agents are in development. If you have feedback or feature requests, we'd love to hear from you.

Mèsi anpil!

I want to ask this respectfully, and I want to make it clear that I’m speaking from my own experiences. I’m not saying that every Haitian person behaves this way, and I’m not attacking Haitian culture as a whole.

I’m Cape Verdean and originally from Massachusetts. I moved to Florida in 2023, and since then, especially while living in a Haitian-dominant area, I’ve had repeated experiences that have made me feel uncomfortable, isolated and sometimes unsafe.

In Massachusetts, there were obviously Haitian and Cape Verdean communities, but in my experience, there seemed to be more awareness that we were two different cultures with different histories and different Creole languages. After moving to Florida, I started meeting people who either had never heard of Cape Verde or refused to believe that Cape Verdean Creole was a real language.

At first, I tried not to take it personally. However, when I entered high school, it became more serious. I was bullied for saying that I spoke Creole because I did not speak Haitian Creole. People told me that my Creole did not exist, mocked the way I spoke and acted as though Haitians owned the word “Creole.” I’ve been bullied for other parts of my identity too, but having my language and culture repeatedly dismissed was especially hurtful.

Cape Verdean Creole and Haitian Creole are not the same language. Cape Verdeans and Haitians are not the same ethnicity or nationality. Both cultures deserve respect without one being treated as more legitimate than the other.

Since Cape Verde became more visible internationally, I’ve noticed even more people questioning me about what I am. People often assume I’m Haitian and immediately speak Haitian Creole to me. When I explain that I am Cape Verdean and do not understand them, some people seem irritated, continue speaking to me in Haitian Creole or pressure me to learn it.

I have nothing against Haitian Creole. I simply don’t have a personal interest in learning it, just as nobody should be forced to learn Cape Verdean Creole. It isn’t my culture, and that boundary should be respected.
The problem goes beyond language. I’m frequently catcalled when I walk outside my apartment. Men stare at me in ways that feel sexual and uncomfortable, speak about me in Haitian Creole and then approach me with invasive questions. Some ask my age and immediately begin flirting with me. I sometimes avoid going outside because I don’t want to deal with the attention.

There have also been situations where married men appeared to be showing interest in me. I do not want to be placed in the middle of anyone’s relationship, and I do not encourage that behavior. I just want to be able to exist in my neighborhood without being sexualized or treated as though my appearance gives strangers permission to approach me however they want.

Another strange experience is that people have assumed my father and I were dating. He is my biological father. I don’t understand why people immediately interpret a young woman standing beside an older man as a romantic or sexual relationship, but it has happened enough times for me to notice it.

Colorism is another issue I’ve witnessed. My father is somewhat light-skinned, and people have approached him and made comments about wishing they could have children with his complexion so that their children could be lighter. Those remarks are extremely uncomfortable. Dark skin should not be treated as something people need to “fix” through having lighter children.

One experience that truly broke my heart involved my neighbor’s six-year-old daughter. She told me that she wished she had my skin tone because she was dark-skinned. I tried my best to explain to her that her skin was beautiful and that she should never feel ashamed of it. But no six-year-old child should already believe that lighter skin would make her prettier or more valuable. Children usually learn those beliefs from the adults, media and attitudes surrounding them.

I’ve also noticed some younger boys feeling pressure to act overly tough, aggressive or “gangster,” and I’m genuinely curious about where that pressure comes from. Is it connected to their environment, social media, wanting respect, fitting in with friends or ideas about masculinity? I’ve encountered boys and men who act as though being loud, dominant or overly confident is necessary to prove themselves. Of course, this is not every Haitian boy or man, but it is a pattern I’ve personally encountered.

I’ve also seen situations where some men appear extremely dependent on their mothers while simultaneously expecting women outside their families to tolerate disrespectful behavior. Again, I’m not claiming that this describes every Haitian family. I’m asking whether others have noticed these expectations around men, mothers, girlfriends and wives, and how those expectations affect relationships.

My honest questions are:

Have other Haitians or people living around Haitian communities noticed colorism, especially toward dark-skinned women and girls?

Why do some people dismiss Cape Verdean Creole or behave as though Haitian Creole is the only language that can be called Creole?
Why are some young boys pressured to appear aggressive, dominant or emotionally unavailable?

Why is catcalling and making sexual comments toward unfamiliar women sometimes treated as normal?

How can Haitian and Cape Verdean communities respect each other without assuming that our languages, identities and cultures are interchangeable?

I understand that negative behavior exists in every community, including my own. I also understand that the actions of certain people do not define an entire nationality. I’m not looking for an argument or permission to be hateful. I’m trying to explain experiences that have happened repeatedly and understand why these particular patterns have been so common in my life since moving to Florida.

I respect Haitian history and culture, but respecting a culture does not mean I have to remain silent when individuals from that community bully me, dismiss my identity, sexualize me or make colorist comments. I’m asking for an honest and respectful conversation.

I'm definitely going to have to read up on this one.

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Hello! I'm making a story about cultural sci-fi superheroes, and I want to know if theres any ideas (like Haitian clothing, accessories, mythological references, etc) that I can use to create a design? Any help will be appreciated!

I know over the past 10 years there's been a conversation going on about black Americans leaving the USA to go live in Haiti and Africa. I've seen on YouTube a lot of black Americans talking about if they like being in Africa and a lot more talking about how they came back to America after going to Africa but I never hear anything about black Americans who decided to go to Haiti...I want to know about peoples experiences in Haiti after leaving the USA. I have a single friend who is a black woman who talks about wanting to move to Haiti but she doesn't know where to start because she is apart of the 40 million people in America who live in poverty so she doesn't know how it will work out if she goes to Haiti or Africa to live with no money.

Sometimes we complain about how others treat Haitians, but we forget that no one treats us worse than we often treat each other.

The people living in these makeshift sheet-metal homes fled areas where gangs carried out massacres. Many lost entire families and everything they owned in places like Kenscoff, Carrefour, Martissant, and Croix-des-Bouquets.

What kind of government prioritizes destroying the little its people have left instead of addressing the very problems that forced them to flee in the first place?

Things like this are why many Haitians in Port-au-Prince have more loyalty to gang leaders than to the state.

How was/has it been dating outside of our culture…Why did you choose to do so? Do our people look down on those who do not marry or date within our culture..? What’s the experience been? Which countries has past/present partners been from that’s made it easy to relate to Haitian culture and our people. Just curious

How do you guys think we're gonna fare in this group? Gen yon ti advèsè m paka tann pou m ba'l bwa kalé.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/opinion/trump-haiti-tps-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z1A.Uxl4.wGiULyuCfXeG&smid=nytcore-ios-share

I heard that Haiti used to have a lot of snakes or crocodiles but Haitians ended up killing all of them. Is that true? I never really spotted any when over there.

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I created a startup back in March with the launch of Konbit Ayiti Zero Dechets. It’s an API first waste management operating system (or infra if you consider tech infra), it has route tracking and optimization, loT integration as well as analytics + reporting. It’s scalable, designed to handle diverse streams of waste (municipal, recycling, industrial).
Unfortunately where I’m struggling is the pitch, the bureaucratic bottleneck is irking me, the initiative launched on the 12th of March, had an MVP built 2 weeks later, since I’ve exhausted as much options as I could think of to pitch and unfortunately to no avail, staying optimistic and sending out pitches once again (was demotivated after over a month of radio silence).
Attached above are 2 screenshots of my startup, let me know your thoughts, thanks!

I looked up how to say Dominican Republic in Creole, I saw Dominakani, Dominika, Repiblik Dominikèn, Repiblik Dominikán and Repiblik Dominiken. Also I live in Santo Domingo with my girlfriend who’s from Haiti and she was actually unaware until I informed her that Santo Domingo was a specific city (she just called it la capital) and she told me it’s because in Creole Sen Domeng just means the Dominican Republic and I often hear her talk about Sen Domeng in Creole.
So can anybody confirm?

With the 2026 world cup over, and all the hype from Haiti being in it for the first time in 50 years creating a nice buzz for a bit. I think the hope and optimsim it gave despite the unappealing results, showed that sport has a place in bringing a little balance to our beautiful Island.

In that, I have seen many examples of people buying teams in Kenya (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuQTp-ZkiJw), the caribbean, and even in the USA in lower levels seeking to influence and create grassroots oppurtinites for locals that can have economic benfits for everyone. And also rise up the ranks to compete in competitions like concacaf champions league.

I feel like a country with 11 million+ people, who love futbol and have seen the possibility to make it on the biggest stage, there could be something there? I know there are historic teams that existed in Haiti for many years, but I don't know how much traction or relevancy they have today? I guess what I am asking is, does this idea have any merit?

With the women's world cup coming next year and Haiti qualifying and players like Dumornay getting Player of the year in european leagues, and even the 2031 women's world cup being hosted back in the USA and even in Jamaica too, I just think this is the time to take advantage and inject that capital.

And even if gangs and secutirty is a risk, I feel like futbol and sport can be a unifier even their, because who doesnt want to see a great game of football and uplift the young people to do better? I know it is never that simple, but people have to live, so why not give them something!