Gourdes

Subtract 1500 Gourdes for two uniforms, and 200 Gourdes for health insurance (keep in mind that PaP Sécurité's guards are all required to carry guns), and you are left with 1800 Gourdes, $44.72.

Aid money goes to security profiteers 2010

Now subtract an average for 25 gourdes twice a day for public transportation to and from work (PaP Sécurité guards do not have the luxury of placements close to home), or roughly 1300 Gourdes a month, and you are left with 500 Gourdes, or twelve dollars and forty-two cents.

Aid money goes to security profiteers 2010

Now subtract an average for 25 gourdes twice a day for public transportation to and from work (PaP Sécurité guards do not have the luxury of placements close to home), or roughly 1300 Gourdes a month, and you are left with 500 Gourdes, or twelve dollars and forty-two cents.

Rowan Moore Gerety: Aid money goes to security profiteers 2010

Subtract 1500 Gourdes for two uniforms, and 200 Gourdes for health insurance (keep in mind that PaP Sécurité's guards are all required to carry guns), and you are left with 1800 Gourdes, $44.72.

Rowan Moore Gerety: Aid money goes to security profiteers 2010

The base salary for a guard at PaP Sécurité, a company with over 2000 employees, is 3500 Gourdes, or $86.96.

Aid money goes to security profiteers 2010

The base salary for a guard at PaP Sécurité, a company with over 2000 employees, is 3500 Gourdes, or $86.96.

Rowan Moore Gerety: Aid money goes to security profiteers 2010

The UNDP is paying 30,000 people to help clean up Haiti, 180 Haitian Gourdes ($4.47) for six hours of work.

Bill Quigley: Haiti Numbers - 27 Days After Quake 2010

Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes.

Les Miserables 2008

Macocqwer, according to their seuerall formes called by vs, Pompions, Mellions, and Gourdes, because they are of the like formes as those kindes in England.

A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia : of the Commodities and of the Nature and Manners of the Naturall Inhabitants : Discouered bÿ the English Colonÿ There Seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight In the ÿeere 1585 : Which Remained Vnder the Gouerenment of Twelue Monethes, At the Speciall Charge and Direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight Lord Warden of the Stanneries Who therein Hath Beene Fauoured and Authorised bÿ Her Maiestie and Her Letters Patents / This Fore Booke Is Made in English by Thomas Hariot seruant to the Aboue-Named Sir Walter, a Member of the Colonÿ, and There Imploÿed in Discouering ; CVM GRATIA ET PRIVILEGIO CÆS. MATIS SPECIALIi. Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis Loannis Wecheli, Svmtibvs Vero Theodori de Bry anno CIC IC XC. Venales Reperivntvr in Officina Sigismvndi Feirabendiii 1871

It is surprising to say, for example, that in 1821, a part of the belt sewer, called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes.

Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862