Oil production has fallen due to poor maintenance and weak investment, the road system is dire, crime is rampant and social campaigns have petered out.
Holden also rejected Trump's dire warnings about crime and the need for law and order.
Even then, it can take more than a year to revoke a liquor license if the threat to the public is not considered dire, like violent crime or drug dealing, Mr. Jones said.
While the publisher defines the term broadly — requiring sinister tales or crime stories that evoke a strong sense of place and do not have happy endings — the Haiti book offers its own spin with plenty of grisly crime, dire poverty, and references to magic and religion.
(There have been 43 titles since "Brooklyn Noir" in 2004; a Copenhagen volume came out this month as well). While the publisher defines the term broadly — requiring sinister tales or crime stories that evoke a strong sense of place and do not have happy endings — the Haiti book offers its own spin with plenty of grisly crime, dire poverty, and references to magic and religion.
Even since the economy began stalling several years ago, there have been dire warnings that crime would rise.
The country as a whole went terribly wrong in this area during the 1990s, when high-profile crimes prompted dire predictions of teenage "superpredators" taking over the streets.
If you could put money on a word combo coming up empty on Google, one of the best bets would surely be "Dire Straits" and "hate crime".
The guiding principle is that murder (even manslaughter) will out, and the dire secret of the crime will squirm noisily around, leaving clues until its circumstances are discovered.
If we are to change the dire situation revealed in annual crime statistics, there has to be an end to a culture of suspicion, denial and victim-blaming.
