Port-de-Paix airstrip needs $214K to fix risky landings as rehab stalls

Port-de-Paix airstrip needs $214K to fix risky landings as rehab stalls

PORT-DE-PAIX— Eight months after work began to rehabilitate the dormant Port-de-Paix airstrip, the project has stalled, leaving pilots and passengers to navigate increasingly dangerous landing conditions. With no functioning airport in the Northwest Department—and with the long-promised Port-à-l’Ecu International Airport still unfinished more than a decade after construction began—residents say air travel has become both a necessity and a gamble…