There are no more words to express what the Haitian people have had to endure through the ages. A true test of faith.
#haitiwearesorry
66 responses to “Remembering Haiti”
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Haiti to receive 20million in insurance payout a total of 16 payouts totalling 38million. One looks at the devastation and cant help but feel pain and sorrow for the people .
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ACs…that is the problem with yardfowls, narrow focus.
Haitians are used to death and destruction, it has been happening for centuries, they have become desensitized, genration after generation.
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Imagine, if ya can, the minister’s created water crisis getting so bad in Barbados, that 3 0r 400 people start dying there every week, a couple deaths recently and people were very vocal.
How will Fruendel the Fool and the other useless government ministers who helped create the water problems handle that.,,, be honest, dont lie.
Lawson….lol
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ACs…do you even feel a smidgen of sorrow or sympathy for the people in the 4 or 5 parishes in Barbados who have not been getting water for months and weeks.
Your government created those horrible conditions and will reap their just desserts.
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@ David October 7, 2016 at 3:11 AM re ” Some 50 people were reported killed in the town of Roche-a-Bateau alone…The nearby city of Jeremie saw 80% of its buildings levelled. In Sud province 30,000 homes were destroyed.”
The most practical and positive aspect of any disaster is the opportunity to rebuilding stronger and better. Thus the jarring nature of the death and destruction is Haiti is disturbing.
Several years ago I sat through a presentation from Grenville Phillips who of course you know well as a BU ‘correspondent’ . He spoke in his field of expertise on the need for major engineering and architectural improvements with the housing stock n Haiti. This followed his professional visit to the country following yet another weather event there.
Thus it begs asking: why are they still so badly prepared to face these events??
Yes we all understand the impoverished nature of the country but there has been enormous aid thrown at the country and with people like Grenville stating the stark realities of that nation it would have to be gross malfeasance of officials and stubborn citizens that the situation can still lead to calamitous destruction.
The picture above, for example, is clearly a disaster of destruction waiting to happen.
Haitians need not ask “Oh Lord hear our prayers!” but rather they must demand more than prayers from their officials and aid agencies (Like Clinton Foundation) to raze the shanty town favellas and rebuild stronger and with proper sanitation and community well-being.
This is long overdue and the pace of action must be increased exponentially.
The country is smack bang in a hurricane path and this type event will be repeated over time, thus Haiti cannot continue to lurch forward in this way.
Sympathy and empathy can go only so far.
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David,
Here is one for you, as the jokers called the print media will not understand it from Adam.
Remember the Haitian earthquake, forget for the time being that the Clintons restricted Caricom leaders to a meeting on the airport tarmac in Jamaica, while their daughter was allowed to flew in to Port au Prince.
The humiliation was typical of the nasty Clintons. H|re is the challenge: go through all the governments and organisations that promised |Haiti loads of money and see how many have actually delivered on their promises.
Start with the Middle East, then move on to France and the other Caribbean islands. Great story. -
Haiti is a BLACK country labelled by right wingers as a voodoo country. It will never command any respect from the work, including regional leaders.We keep remembering the infection of the water left by so called peacekeepers and how the UN and other world bodies responded.
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Barbados Underground wrote:
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Haiti internal problems are connected to all of its problems talk to many Haitians and they will say that the govt never allocates financial resources to the country. if the overwhelmingly populace does not trust the Haitian govt then in all possibility outsiders would have lest trust in them too
Counting how many countries donated to Haiti is not the answer .The answer lies in a defiance by Haiti govts who sees only what is in their best interest in return sending messages to donors that the country lacked govts that cannot be trusted -
You are clueless about Haiti.
Recommended reading before posting another comment.
The Richest Families In Haiti
Despite Haiti being the poorest of poor countries, it has a percentage of very rich elite who control the economy and the governance of the country.
October 28, 2012 10:13 PM
In such a difficult social economic environment, the few wealthy families live in a class of their own; tiered, Malibu-style homes above in the hills of Port-au-Prince.
In the 1980’s reports show that the upper class in Haiti constituted of 2 percent of the total population. However, the 2 percent controlled about 44 percent of the total national income.
Though the elite percentage is small it has the biggest share of the economy. The top six richest families in Haiti are: Madsen, Brandt, Lacombe, Gardere, Mevs and Bigio.
http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/the-richest-families-in-haiti.html
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Not clueless about Haiti knows many Haitains some who were part of Haiti political elite.dont fool yourself beliving that everything printed is the total representation of Haiti politics .speaking to the ordinary haitain would give you the the true preceptive between of what is printed and what and reality.
I have been in contact with many haitains because of my line of work -
Barbadians (Caribbean people) have very short memories. It was Bill Clinton who deposed the democratically elected Aristide and exiled him to Africa.
The same Arkansas-born |Clinton, backed by his over-ambitious wife, who introduced three strikes, landing generations of young black people in prison. I suggest you have a look at the CNN debate back in the early 1990s between Clinton and the rapper Sista Souljah.
Clinton is a Southerner. Go back to his mouthings about Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Check the reports on Peres’s recent funeral in Israel. Obama was giving Clinton a lift o Air Force One back to Washington DC, Clinton showed his disrespect by making the president wait.
A leopard cannot change its spots. The Clintons see black people as kitchen staff. For black people, a vote for Clinton or Trump is like voting for the electric chair or the gallows. -
@ David,
Are these 2 percent upper class in Haiti that control 44% of the total national income, Black or White people? Just asking!
THE RICHEST FAMILIES IN HAITI
Despite Haiti being the poorest of poor countries, it has a percentage of very rich elite who control the economy and the governance of the country.
October 28, 2012 10:13 PM
In such a difficult social economic environment, the few wealthy families live in a class of their own; tiered, Malibu-style homes above in the hills of Port-au-Prince.
In the 1980’s reports show that the upper class in Haiti constituted of 2 percent of the total population. However, the 2 percent controlled about 44 percent of the total national income.
Though the elite percentage is small it has the biggest share of the economy. The top six richest families in Haiti are: Madsen, Brandt, Lacombe, Gardere, Mevs and Bigio.
http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/the-richest-families-in-haiti.html
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@Zoe
Do you still hold the view that Haiti is being ‘punished’ because of its voodoo practices?
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U.S. Government Haiti Post-Earthquake Funding*
As of September 30, 2014
Available Funding Obligations Disbursements % DisbursedHumanitarian Relief Assistance $1.3 billion $1.3 billion $1.3 billion 100%
Recovery,Reconstruction
andDevelopment $2.7 billion $2.2 billion $1.8 billion 66%TOTAL $4 billion $3.5 billion $3.1 billion 77%
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Taken from Zoboop facebook page
I just learned a few minutes ago that a friend of mine who is living in Miami, Florida has lost 22 members of his Family in the devastated Hurricane Matthew in the Southern Region of Haiti # Pestel # Ghost Town The man is so devastated that he doesn’t even know what to do or where to begin. He told me that he can’t even cry because he is Afraid that if he starts crying that the tears will never Stop. Its a shame that Haiti doesn’t have a Government with real intelligent Human Beings in Charge, But instead Haiti has a bunch of Morons and Mediocre Politicians who are only thinking about how fast they can become Rich , instead of thinking about the Welfare and the Security of the People that they are serving. Specially in a moment like that where they can’t even provide Safe Shelters for those who are seriously affected by the Hurricane. Why do we need these Ass-Holes in the Country, why are we going to vote for the same Imbeciles, the same good for nothing Morons who are brainless # No Vision whatsoever for the Country. I am growing tired of those fake wannabe Politicians who are running my Country to the Ground. Zobop . One love.
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