21628: Vedrine: RE: 21620: MARINA - Haiti's first investment bank to focus on projects for poor (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: E Vedrine <evedrine@hotmail.com>


It's about time that HAITIANS WHO CAN (those with $$, great ideas, those
with a vision for the country's future) get together to do something to help
the country moving forward. Haitians (most of them) concentrate too much on
political craps instead of INVESTING, finding ways to invest (to help the
country). The recent international political theatre going on in Haiti seems
to paralyze most Haitians (THE NEVER MIND VIRUS). I say INVEST TO HELP
because some investments have been sucking up the country's blood. We must
learn how to invest, to work together (bourgeois, middle class, front class,
back class, poor class, scholars, those who practice a trade, those with a
particular profession, so on and so forth). They can get together and do
something for the country. There are times when we MUST put Politics behind
us and try to do something together for the benefit of the country. When we
see some Haitians get together to do something (in the advantage of the
country) we should clap our hands and encourage them (Bat men ankouraje chen
/ Clapping hands encourages the dog). It's about time that our ELITE tries
to do sth. POSITIVE for the country. I am really tired when I read all the
time "Haiti is the poorest nation in this hemisphere". HAITIAN ALONE can
make the country looks like a little Switzerland.  I am pretty sure that
there are hundreds other Haitians who don't like to read this phrase but
what do they do? The answer is that WE HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO
SOMETHING POSITIVE no matter how little it may be, but the difference will
be great. We are such a rich nation in terms of our HUMAN RESOURCES but we
don't put things in practice (most of the time), we don't belive in
ourselves (most of the time). Imagine that every single Haitian would put a
dollar aside for Haiti's development every single week. We are more than 1
million in the Diaspora. So, at least in one year we'd have $52 m . Wow!!
Investing that in AGRICULTRE, HELP CARE, EDUCATION, other basic
infrastructures... (doing it every year for at least 10 years) oh lord! What
a break would that be with World Bank, IMF, ... and all other "pèpè" AIDS or
  underdeveloping ones that are put in place to condenm third world
countries. If the ox knew its strength...


E.W.Vedrine,
Chief editor - Vedrine Creole Project, Inc.
P.O.Box 255110; Dorchester, MA. 02125-5110 (USA)
http://www.palli.ch/~kapeskreyol/bibliographie/vedrine.html
and editor of “Haiti’s Super Web Directory”
http://www.palli.ch/~kapeskreyol/bibliographie/vedrine/web.html

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