Haiti Ahead

By now you may have heard the reporting on so-called “Tent Cities” to be created as soon as they have enough tents on hands. In my opinion that is the wrong way to go right now. Very cheap tents should be distributed in those temporary places where people are sleeping now. Better yet, load of people should have been moved out of the rubles to temporary shelters (churches, schools, warehouses, etc.) outside the affected areas. Evacuate! Once they are out of the devastated sites, they could be fed much easier as they would be broken into smaller groups. They would also be less difficult to deal with once they are re-assured that they’ll only be there until more appropriate tents are erected in common areas in Port-au-Prince. This way, we would buy our selves some times to put together a better coordinated plan for the “New City”. Instead of this hasty plan to rebuild one that was never accommodating and fitting in the first place. This old city is way too small. Northwest of the cit...

The idea came to me a minute ago. Without much thought, here we go. We need this bad. There, don't sweat it and join in. Don't shy away, speak your mind, share your thoughts and desire right here from now one. This forum has been long overdue. I resisted joining Facebook , My Space , and others for lack of times and things to say. Well, it seems to me that we now have plenty to talk about. Haiti is ours whether we want it or not. For most of us it's a stigma; being Haitian, the connotations are many and not all flattering . I understand that words are merely words and mean nothing without actions to back it up. But, word is what I have today; and the word of the day is "do-it". Join Da King and thus the world as we express our most sincere and intimate thoughts. To quote our ex- compatriot Richard Brisseaux : " Entrez , sans frapper . Chez -nous il n-y-a pas d'honeur , ni de respect."