The economy urges the government to take measures to counter the inflation and lowering salaries.

Unless the government steps in with new supportive measures, the survivors nonetheless face a bumpy road ahead. Interest rates remain high, having been hiked in response to the economic crisis. This, together with galloping inflation and tumbling incomes, will continue to depress consumer sentiment.

After six years and 10,000 deaths, the United Nations issued a carefully worded public apology on Thursday for its role in the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti and the widespread suffering it has caused since then.