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MORN PRESENTS ITS CONSTRUCTION PLAN FOR THE NEW HAITI
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(07-04-2010)

On Sunday June 27, 2010, Paul Gustave Magloire, the president of MORN (Movement for the Reconciliation and the National Renaissance), and his team revealed the architectural model of one of the important components of his plan for the construction of the new Haiti, during a meeting at Aventura-Miami, Florida, in front of an audience made up of the members of the organization, some partisans and allies.

Figure: Paul G. Magloire presenting the model

Indeed, this architectural model represents the Landmark, which will be erected in the Grand-North capital, one of the principal regions of the country, according to the plan established by Mr. Magloire and his team, within the framework of the construction of the new Haiti.

Before beginning his presentation, Mr. Magloire had asked the audience to pay its respects to the earthquake victims of January 12, by observing a few minutes of silence and meditation.

We should never forget that the earthquake left behind ruins and desolation, and each one of us must make his/her contribution in order to facilitate the rebirth of a new country out of the rubble.

Indeed, the great majority of the city-capital public buildings crumbled under the strong jolts of the earthquake and more than 270,000 people died, in addition to the casualties and victims that number in the hundreds of thousands, due to the collapse of the houses and the buildings.

However, until now, the precarious situation of the hundreds of thousands of the homeless people in the city-capital still remains alarming, particularly in a year when the hurricane season could be rigorous.

Figure 2: Pastor F. Lazard

Thus, Mr. Magloire had also asked Pastor Lazard to request that the Divine grace and the blessings of the Great Architect of the Universe be showered upon this project, which must at the very least give a little hope to our people

Figure 3: The leader of MORN. PGM, thanking Pastor F. Lazard

After the circumstantial prayer, Mr. Magloire invited, one more time, all the lifeblood and responsible people in charge of the nation to join MORN in a national effort, and with the support of the Diaspora, several foreign donors of the international community who are sensitive to the plight of the Haitian people, in order to launch this plan for the construction of the new Haiti, within a democratic framework of social justice.

This global plan, which is the product of his reflections and his experiences over these last thirty years, has been largely published in his writings over this same period.

This plan aims at re-launching the Program of the Depopulation of Port-au-Prince and the Decentralization of the country, which he had inaugurated back in 2005, at the time of his tenure as the head of the Ministry for the Interior and the Territorial Collectivities, during the interim government.

There he left, as clear and strong evidence, some of the most tangible and important achievements of the past 25 years such as, the road connecting the Cap-Haitian to Ouanaminthe, in addition to the administrative complex of the Cap-Haitian and that of Jérémie, as well as other important projects that the government of Mr. Préval and his cohorts have so far refused to carry forward to completion.

It is evident that the seism, which shook the country at its core, has proven beyond any doubt the necessity for applying such a plan: the great demographic concentration of the capital, Port-au-Prince, primarily contributed to the high number of victims during the earthquake.

Figure 4: A view of the audience, which was paying close attention to the presentation

They had come from everywhere, from within Haiti as well as from the Diaspora, and representing this great diversity of our socio-political landscape, to take part in this presentation.

Thus, as had declared this famous poet from Jérémie, René Philoctète, in The Islands that Walk: "They had come from faraway, people of Prévilé, far from behind the mountains, in a harmonic chime of songs and fresh pompéias..."

Figure 5: M. Magloire ending his presentation, followed by the translation in English of M. Legagneur.

Several members of MORN intervened to express their point of view with regard to the project: Mr. Victor Latour declared that he is 83 years old and it is the first time that he has the net impression that Haiti has a chance.

And he is working hard in the area of Cayes, in the South of the country, so that the project of MORN can be realized.

Figure 6: The Engineer-Entrepreneur Victor Latour

Mr. Magloire and his team recommend the restructuring of the country in three major regions, the Great-North, the Great-South and the Great-Center.

Each region will be equipped with a modern city serving as the regional capital.

Thus, each regional capital will be equipped with a Landmark, which will be the flagship of a network of great systems.

The Landmark of the Great-North, which is a master piece of architecture, likely to cost around 500 million dollars, will espouse the particular characteristics of the region.

It will be used as a point of attraction and will instigate the economy of the Great-North.

The construction of all the systems all over the country will account for approximately 9.9 billion dollars.

Figure 7: Frantz Souverain, the leader of the youth group LANSE-HAITI visiting the USA

Figure 8: The lawyer of the Oil Funds Inc., Mr. Herb Abramson, speaking to the leader of MORN. Mr. Abramson is a valiant soldier of the cause of the Haitian community in Florida and a large supporter of the MORN project.

Indeed, this Landmark presented to the assistance will be part of a comprehensive system made up of several great complexes, which will encompass several important components necessary for the development of the country.

Such as:

A university system in the Great-North region and one on each of the three other regions of the country.

Each complex will include several specialized university schools and faculties as well as a research center of international caliber, with the capacity to accommodate several tens of thousands of students.

A Health system in each region also, which will encompass a university hospital of international stature.

This system will likely be able to compete with the great international complexes and to place Haiti as a reference in the field of public health.

This system will support a network of health care centers and clinics throughout all the municipalities of each region.

There will also be the sports complexes of Olympic caliber, which will eventually position Haiti, in partnership with the Dominican Republic, the country with which it shares the island, to propose the island as a potential candidate to host any regional and world sporting events, such as the Pan-American games, the Olympic Games and the World Cup of Soccer.

The master plan will support also the development of a network of municipal industrial parks, for the manufacturing production directed towards export.

Figure 9: The audience filed to see the model of the project more closely.

Figure 10: Jean Legagneur Sr., President of PROSINT, is answering some questions.

The systems will be serviced by a national highway network linking each region to all the other points of the country.

The network of the Great-North, as already started within the framework of the Program of Decentralization, with the construction of the road connecting the Cap-Haitian to Ouanaminthe, will aim at building highways between the two countries.

The main point of interest of this project will be the border-crossing motorway, already being assessed, which will eventually connect the town of Ouanaminthe, in the North-East, with that of Anse-à-Pitre, in South-east, while going through all the border cities of the two neighboring republics.

In addition, the country will be equipped with a maritime network for coastal traffic planned to leave the area of Maribaro, near Ouanaminthe, to arrive at Anse-à-Pitre, in the Southeast, by going all around the country, port by port, to connect the 100 coastal villages and cities, in order to create a large tourism tour in the country.

The plan also considers the construction of three international airports, one in each of the regions, to connect the country to the great destinations of the world, with an objective more specifically to instigate the traffic of tourists

Figure 11: Mr. Magloire in close meeting with some members of the audience.

The emphasis will be placed, also, on the modernization of the main towns of the ten departments, because these cities presently suffer from the lack of maintenance and the weakening of their urban structure.

Indeed, the absence of adequate infrastructures and opportunities capable of ensuring a decent life in these cities is one of the main reasons for the rural migration towards the other more important urban centers and for the hyper-concentration of the population and of the economic activities in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

In order for the restructuring of the country to happen in a balanced manner, the plan recommends the launching of several special programs of modernization and economic growth, which stress the creation of small and medium-size businesses and the creation of jobs for the young people throughout the country.

These programs will be launched in a hundred municipalities, starting from the three regional capitals

Figure 12: The young people, very motivated, were asking many questions.

We are in the process of developing a master plan, which also projects that the majority of the municipalities as well as the districts of the rural areas will be equipped with a minimum of infrastructure and basic services, so that all the citizens of the country can live with the minimum of dignity deserved by any and all human beings.

A tremendous effort will be put forth to facilitate the increase of the agricultural production from the level of the garden of subsistence to an agriculture providing a better output and capable of bringing several income options to the rural population, the strongest demographic component of the country.

Within this framework, the master plan considers also the launching of the greatest program of reforestation to date in the country, that is to say the annual planting of 20 million trees of all kinds.

This program aims also at initiating the civil service envisaged in the Constitution of the country and at hiring at least 500,000 young people in the construction of the country.

Thanks to this program, the young people will receive grants to attend any of the 10 technical training schools that will be built for this purpose in the 10 departments of the republic.

The master plan is also in favor of the development of co-operative associations in the agricultural production sector and of the reinforcement of the workers' rights in all the industry sectors of the country.

It will put a particular emphasis on the development of the commercial networks and the financing of the small commercial businesses, like shops and small stores, which will have to benefit from tax incentives in order to make them competitive as compared to the large businesses.

The master plan considers that Port-au-Prince, the capital, must remain the nerve center of the country.

Nevertheless, this city will be built starting from a code system of construction that can support the shocks of any earthquakes and the most powerful hurricanes.

This national capital will have mainly a political and administrative function and will be used to house the headquarters of the central government.

It is within the capital also that we will have the main offices of the foreign embassies and consulates.

We will favor the construction of a convention center of international standard to accommodate the most important meetings and gatherings that will need to be held in the country.

Figure 13: They are perplexed in front of the possibility of such a great project for Haiti.

It will be opportune to also build Museums, theaters of great capacity, amusement parks and public parks in order to embellish life within the capital city. We will make an effort not to build other shantytowns, as it seems to happen even now.

All the companies that will be working in the development of these projects know that MORN aims at creating a broad and dynamic middle-class in Haiti within the framework of a democratic environment.

Thus, these companies also understand that 20% of the activities will be granted to local Haitian companies.

Another 20% will be allotted to companies headed by Haitians of the Diaspora.

MORN will also explicitly ask, in this case, that the foreign companies put in place all of the adequate measures to guarantee the realization of these objectives.

Last month, one after the other, two American Senators, the most powerful of the Committee in charge of Foreign Affairs, the Republican of Indiana, Richard Lugar and the president of this committee, the Democrat of Massachusetts, John F. Kerry, publicly spoke of an absence of leadership on the part of President Préval in the crisis that Haiti is confronting.

The two senators are in agreement that a new legitimate government, qualified and able to launch the rebuilding of the country, must come from equitable, transparent and free elections.

One can understand the diplomatic restraint of these senators who avoided saying that Mr. Préval cannot guarantee such elections, taking into account his repeated failure in this area in the past.

Figure 14: The young people took advantage of the opportunity to present their poster with their slogan...

But we, Haitians, have recognized for a long time that the dreadful leadership of Mr. Préval has caused, at the very least, as much wrong to our country as the natural earthquake of last January 12. Moreover, the presidency of this master of trickery will be remembered as one of the most corrupt and the most despicable and vile in the history of our country.

Mr. Préval did not hesitate either, after the greatest disaster that Haiti has ever known, that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, of mutilated people and orphans, to ask tens of thousands of homeless people to remain in the capital, in order to allow his cronies to make huge profits out of the provisioning of the victims, without having the decency to support these homeless people, after more than five months, by offering a viable solution that could at least protect them from the dangers of the hurricane season.

Thus, history will remember President Préval as the person who created the camps of despair where are concentrated the thousands of Haitian homeless people.

Figure 15 Several MORN coordinators got together with guests for memorable photographs

Figure 16: The coordinator, Vico Bellevue, Treasurer Yanick Barlatier and a major supporter of MORN, Max Zamor, appear happy and smiling

Figure 17: Nicole Bernard Legagneur and Hugo Damas, an Executive member of MORN

Figure 18: William Duchene, an Executive member of MORN, Loukens Louine, Technical Coordinator and Ralph Eugene, Adviser on matters of Security.

Figure 19: The comments of Mr. Abramson with regards to the possibilities of MORN were applauded

Figure 20: Mr. Edgard Bruno, member of Alliance and a major supporter of MORN is paying attention to the details of the project model.

Furthermore, the government of Mr. Préval is as incompetent as it is mediocre.

For example, we met several contractors in construction industry.

They have worldwide operations and spoke to us about their recent visit in Haiti, as an immense disappointment.

Indeed, Haiti represents an important enough market for construction, taking into account the extent of the damage undergone by the residential structures and the buildings.

As it is common knowledge, there is a package of more than 2.5 billion dollars promised by the international community to contribute to the rebuilding of the country in the 18 next months.

These contractors say that they noted, after 5 months, the government did not have any valid project nor did they have any sense of what it is they wanted to do. By contrast however, the government has in its midst or in its close surroundings a bunch of brokers who seek to trade, for a hefty sum of course, their inside contact with the government.

Figure 21: Other personalities of the political and business sectors continue to visit MORN to have a firsthand view of the project.

Such is the case for Mr. Anthony Barbier of Fusion and Mr. Osner Fevry of the CONASSED.

We must point out that the majority of the great projects will be seeking to obtain direct financing from investors to whom the country will have to offer a climate favorable to these investments.

The welcoming offer to these companies will stress the adequate infrastructures and the guarantee of a high level security system.

The tax incentives for the targeted companies will be maintained; nevertheless of great importance will be the continuing education that will be offered to the workers, so that the labor force can be maintained at a high level of qualification and performance.

As had already been mentioned by one of the commentators, the largest tool that Haiti will have to use to forge the success of its development is education and that at all levels.

To that end, the Haitian Constitution already envisaged the universal education of all children.

It must also be said that we foresee that funds of 9.9 billion dollars, allocated to Haiti by the international community, would be better used in the financing of infrastructure work and of basic services to the Haitian population, such as drainage, irrigation, potable water supply, education and health care. This Construction Master Plan for the new Haiti wants to give to the Haitian youth, a reason for keeping hope alive, for believing and liking their country

May God bless Haiti!

The people who participated in the preparation of this report are: Loukens Louine, Gabrielle Menos, Ralph Eugene, Hugo Damas and Jean Legagneur, Sr.

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