Mimi, You and I are on the page on this issue. If I may

Pertaining to Development of City Soleil, Mimi, You and I are on the page on this issue.

If I may elaborate a bit. We need to rid our country of shanty towns.

Why?

Because image is everything.

I coul never comprehend why past governments had plan to embellish such an unhospitable place as Cite Soleil! Anyway, we cannot just solely focus on Cite Soleil since there are lots of other shanty towns around the country.

We always need a national public housing plan, that way, all Haitians from anywhere and everywhere inside Haiti would feel they're not being forgotten.

I like the idea of developping suburbs outside medium size town like Leogane or state funded public buildings inside major cities like Port-de-Paix, Jeremie.

But we have to concern ourselves with the lack of resources available to the Haitian government at this time. Government assistance in Haiti is a touchy subject: " On n'a pas les moyens" " We do not have the resources" is what they'll tell you. So private investment is the only option.

However, the state of Haiti can provide government loan guarantees to private investors.

Loan guarantee is an assurance not an assistance.

In other words, the state of Haiti does not have to put out any money.

Make no mistake about it, the state of Haiti did guarantee loans for private investments in the past long time ago. It's just the terms were never in Haiti's favor.

So Haiti came out the looser big time.
There is a master plan in the works for mother Haiti.

You can contribute if you wish. Just keep in touch.

Thanks

The topic is: Development of City Soleil
This is a reply to Msg 6100
Posted by Rubens F. Titus on February 11 2008 at 8:08 PM

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Rubens F. Titus says...

Mimi, You and I are on the page on this issue. If I may elaborate a bit. We need to rid our country of shanty towns. Why? Because image more »

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Robert P Toussaint says...

Rubens, ne compte pas trop sur le gouvernement pour aider le peuple a se procurer une maison descente pour se loger. Ce qu'ils construisent more »

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Linda says...

RPT, Rubens, and Mimi: All of your ideas are along the same line, each adding quality to the other. This is how great ideas are created. Do keep more »

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Soufnantiou says...

Hey Linda, avan memm kem finn li pos ou wa, mwen te gentan dako ak ou. Nawedez, mwen pa pedi tanm li lot mounn yo anko, paske se ranse yap more »

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Linda says...

Hey Sounantiou, I loved this "Bay de wey." There's great Haitian author, who actually won awards and honors from Haiti, France, and The US for more »

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Soufnantiou says...

It's all great news about our people winning awards and honors throughout the world, but i'm just so far away from becoming one of them. The "by more »

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Linda says...

Soufnantiou very few of us reach great professional heights. However, some of us do reach personal greatness during those times when we are able more »

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Soufnantiou says...

Hi, Linda i guess today is my day. I'm so proud of you, i'm trying to keep you busy so nobody else gets a chance to blog with you. That doesn't more »

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Jacques Bouchereau says...

I,recently read something regarding Cite Soleil is to be RECONSTRUCTED with VENEZUELAN MONEY!! Does any know of such more »

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Wilgeens Rosenberg says...

I AGREE 100 % THE FOUNDATION I HAVE IN MIND WOULD BE BASED ON DEVELOPING CITIES, BUILDING AND REBUILDING EFFORTS. THAT IS AN EXCELLENT IDEA. TOO more »

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