15942: Racine: Re: 15929: Slavin: Aeroport International Jacmel (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Racine125@aol.com

In a message dated 6/17/2003 12:00:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
corbetre@webster.edu writes:

<< The news from a friend who returned to the U.S. from Haiti last week is
 that the aviation field (OK, aviation pasture) in Jacmel is now the
 construction site of Haiti's latest international airport. It's being paved
 and the word on the street is that a regular flight from Ft. Lauderdale
 (ala Cap Haitien) is in the works. The other bit of zin is the
 international airport is privately financed -- is it time for a scholarly
 dissertation on the sustainable development legacy of narcotrafficking? >>

(giggle)

The small-plane airfield in Jacmel is certainly being revamped.  USAID and
private investors are putting up the funding, and all of us financially solvent
residents of Jacmel were offered a chance to get in on the action - I
declined, I don't have confidence in Haitian investments, but others did put up some
money.

Narcotrafficking at the Jacmel airfield couldn't have amounted to much
because flights were so infrequent - if there was one landing a week, that was a big
week!   Usually two or three weeks would go by without any visits.

Right now LYNX Air offers service to Jacmel, but it is overland from
Port-au-Prince, they don't fly into Jacmel.  Whether business will pick up once the
expansion is finished is anybody's guess.

Peace and love,

Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen

"Se bon ki ra" - Good is rare
     Haitian Proverb

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