Garry Pierre-Pierre
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist
Founder and Publisher of the Haitian Times

     Garry Pierre-Pierre is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who is the founder, editor and publisher of the Haitian Times, an English language newspaper serving New York's Haitian community. Garry Pierre-Pierre is also the co-host of Independent Sources on CUNY TV.

Pierre-Pierre takes audiences into the culture and history of Haiti, provides an eyewitness account of the chaos and aftermath of the earthquake and addresses the challenges the country now faces. Once a verdant and prosperous nation, Haiti slowly became a place whose ecology was slowly eroded mostly by people cutting down trees for charcoal consumption. The international community, although alarmed by this trend, did little to provide the Haitian people with a feasible fuel alternative.

Pierre-Pierre discusses how the Haitian government, particularly in the 1980's turned a blind eye to the rapid and chaotic construction that was taken place in the urban areas. Such unchecked construction, transformed a city built for 200,000 into a 3 million strong metropolis with people literally living on top of each other. When the earthquake hit, it set up the perfect situation for a tragedy of biblical proportion.