"Haiti needs long-term help after storms, says UN official "............."Haiti needed long-term help before storms "...........where is the news ?

No they need a METRO!

very soon the crowds will be riding the Metro....Mojoncito you lose

"very soon"

Aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves?

you cannot bear to imagine it ....the roar of the cheering crowd....Leonel raising his arms like a champion ...you and the hand puppet crying next to your space at the internet cafe.....You will be back to the Methadone clinics soon amigito....woe is you

"Leonel raising his arms"

Tell him to wear antiperspirant for once!

you cannot bear to imagine it ....the roar of the cheering crowd....Leonel raising his arms like a champion ...you and the hand puppet crying next to your space at the internet cafe.....You will be back to the Methadone clinics soon amigito....woe is you

Please reboot you are in repeat mode!

Josean long time no read glad they let you out.......

parole only but hes taken up with bad company Francois

Chauncey,

Now I am going to help to get you through this day.

I now its difficult for you when you are under so much pressure not to repeat whole postings. So let's take it one word at a time.

See if you can get by today with out repeating the following words:

1. Wanker
2. Weenies
3. Imbecil
4. Idiot
5. Mojoncito
6. Hipolito, No on second thought forget that one, some thing are impossible.

Now I know this doesn't leave you much to work with so please do not interpret this as me trying to censor you, OK!

Enjoy Frank!

The may apprehend me at any moment!

"Haiti needs long-term help after storms, says UN official"

NO SHIT!!!!

Funding was approved 2 years ago for an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and for a Disaster Relief Warehouse (DRW) for Haiti. Those projects are at a standstill because the Haitian government has not granted Southcom title to the land on which it which the facilities are to be built. Had President Preval prioritized the projects, Haiti could be pulling cots, blankets, food and water from its own warehouse instead of relying on the U.S.S Kearsarge, the International Red Cross, the United Nations and others. Why did the Haitian government procrastinate in an urgent matter that could have saved hundreds of lives?

http://georgedetellis.com/PDF/How_to_fix_Haiti.pdf

One reason the Caribbean's frequent tropical storms damage Haiti worse and more often than other countries is that it has been stripped almost bare of trees. With few sources of income and a huge market for cheap cooking fuel, the trees that once nearly covered the island have been cut for charcoal, leaving less than 2 percent of the nation forested by 2006. With nothing to hold the topsoil in place, it is washed downstream, leaving little to absorb rain. Downpours from storms wash quickly into rivers that then rage past their banks, destroying homes and crops and killing people and livestock. Since the early 90s, a group started by Jack Hanna, a former Westinghouse exec has been fighting the problem with a reforestation program, now in 3 mountain watersheds in the southern part of the country. In the past 2 years alone, the group has planted about 2 million trees in the once-barren mountains.

This is what Haiti needs. Outside intervention. The government is incompetent .

WHAT IS REALLY NEEDED IN HAITI NOW

There are three vital concrete things that are needed in Haiti to bring about real assistance and real improvement:

1. Bulldozers and bobcats with trained operators should be dispatched to excavate and return the rivers that raged out of their banks and destroyed so many homes, bridges and lives. The equipment must be sent with teams that can go directly to the cities and towns that have been destroyed by the tidal waves of uncontrolled rivers. This should be completed as quickly as possible before the next heavy rains bring further destruction and death. The people who were victims of these deluges are rightfully afraid to return to their properties – they are living nowhere in utter misery. The river beds have to be restored and bolstered with high earthen levees that will control the next inevitable rushes of water from the denuded mountains. The large sums of money proposed to be sent to the totally ineffective Haitian government needs to b

It' s so funny to read your comments sometime. I've seen thousands of young haitian streaming in your universities.and I figure out that not much of you have visited Haiti. For real, you could have seen your mom, daughter and your sisters in Haiti...so that you could have understand that it's not just Haiti that's bringing probleme to D.R but your girls are very a pain in the ass for us here it's much disease for our son and very wrong exemple for our daughter...So please guys let's admit it, we realy don't think you Dominican are better than us. One day the revolution will start here and all this will be history including the way you Dominican treat Haitian.

Haiti often comes across as one of the most wretched and hopeless places on the planet. But that is not the complete picture and the way out of the multiple crises the country faces is much simpler and less expensive than it might seem. The country tends to hit the headlines in times of flooding or civil strife and most of the photographs and videos that appear are shot in cities. This also gives a false impression.

There are many reasons for this poverty. But one of the most significant is trade policies imposed on the country by international financial institutions. In 1994 the tariff on rice imports was lowered from 36% to 3%. Haiti became dependent on food imports because local farmers could not compete with imported rice and home production shrank considerably.

Donate to Christian Aid. Specically Veterimed, to help Haitian farmers in getting seeds to replant and obtain livestock. Help Haiti grow its own rice and making their own milk. http://www.veterimed.org.ht/

If our women are such a pain in the backside, mr. 1804, why don't you deport them? You could use any of your above excuses for doing so and nobody in the international community would give a damn about it. Now, if we were talking about the dominican authorities deporting the haitian chiriperos and street beggars (specially kids) that are making a living on our streets, then you'll see that very hypocrite intl. community making objections. It seems that we dominicans are to blame for everything wrong happening on this island, including your own inability to curb your population growth (really, I know that things are bad over there, but parents allowing their children to be going through hell alone on a foreign country is a pretty heartless attitude for me), if you're not sure of improving your living conditions on the short run, then why do you bother in having children at all in the first place? specially when you know that they'll grow up through worse conditions than you did.

In fact, I'll wager that, once some sort of birth control plans are implemented over there (and over this side of the fence too, to some extent), things would start to improve, albeit slowly, but some nonetheless. Why do you think that the cubans, despite the fact of being dirt poor too, haven't eaten each other out on these dark times of their revolution? simple, because, since the time of their revolution to this day (1959-2008), along with the implementation of all their social programs and all that, the authorities have taught the people not to have more children than their available means dictate them to do, a thing that have kept the population on that island frozen on the 11,000,000, a number that can be managed nicely with their available landmass.

thank you Mr. Lautaro. I've never once blame Dominican for what is going on here in my country. it's just some of you Dominican people think realy about Haitian. We Haitian know that our politicians are *********. But I'm not agree with you talking about our children, D.R is also a poor country that have beggars like any other country too don't forget you I've seen your people all over the world working in bad conditions to make a living as do the haitian. maybe the US should start talking like about both of us. I know we help them build their country we also bring them problems too. it's the same thing for D.R. and Haiti. Take care....

Excuse me if I sounded somewhat rude and uncaring on my posts, mr. 1804, but sometimes one can't help but be assailed by bitterness when analyzing these issues, specially when the powers at be on both countries keep doing like the dogs chasing their own tails, going in circles. You too take care, mon ami....

France created Haiti, let France fix it. France always gets a free ride in the press where as the Americans can do nothing right in the leftwing press's opinion. Try naming a former French colony which is not a craphole. The crowning achievement of colonial Frenchieness....Haiti! Why doesn't France go fix it?

Ok on a serious note I have a very good idea, why don't we move the United Nations and it building to the Haiti, heck I will help pay for a new building, to be built by Haitians then we move the whole UN to Port-au-Prince. Bam! it is a match made in heaven.