GANGS TARGET, TERRORISE HAITI’S BOOMING APPAREL SECTOR
October 2nd, 2021
Factory owners and stakeholders in Haiti's billion-dollar apparel and textile industry fear that without serious political and security intervention, the industry could buckle under pressures imposed by the country's powerful and violent gangs.
That fear is growing after two garment manufacturing factories, H4H and Palm Apparel, located southwest of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, in Carrefour, were forced to close their doors in early September leaving an estimated 5,000 workers on the breadline.
Members of the Association of Industries of Haiti (ADIH - ...
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