CAP-HAÏTIEN — During a calm conversation, two sisters suddenly smiled at each other as they enjoyed an orange and a squishy bowl of soup joumou (pumpkin soup) at Place d’Armes in Cap-Haïtien on Jan. 1. They kept digging into their bowls as they spoke. Around them, about a dozen other people were doing the same: sipping the cultural soup as they told stories.
They were calm, but it was easy to see the joy on their faces as they talked among themselves while sipping the soup. Residents were celebrating Haiti’s 222nd anniversary of independence, and, as a tradition, soup joumou was served.
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Onz Chery is a Haiti correspondent for The Haitian Times. Chery started his journalism career as a City College of New York student with The Campus. He later wrote for First Touch, local soccer leagues in New York and Elite Sports New York before joining The Haitian Times in 2019.
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