Haiti - Reconstruction : First concrete projects of the Government's Roadmap
Before leaving for Caracas, Venezuela, to attend the first Summit of Heads of State and Government of the "Community of Latin American and Caribbean States" (CELAC) taking place today and tomorrow, the President Michel Martelly, unveiled to journalists a preview, of some projects of the dashboard [roadmap] promised by the Prime Minister, Dr. Garry Conille.
"...we will start to do things at the country level, we will start creating jobs and begin the reconstruction. We have a dashboard here, which contains many programs [...] between January and March 2012, to Morne Cabri we will begin to provide 480 houses, and 200 houses to Duvivier, always in the same period we will start to renovate the Bicentenaire, of 90 million gourds, and that money, is the money of the Haitian state; we will build 10 lakes collinear for 175 million gourds (money from the State); carry out urban renovation of the town of Marmelade, 50 million gourds (money from the State); as well as of the City of Grande Rivière du Nord, adoquinage and drainage, 60 million gourds (money from the State); urban renovation of the town of Ennery, 20 million gourds (money from the State) and the urban renovation of the city of Mirebalais, 150 million gourds of public treasury. That's one page that I read, the roadmap includes a dozen of pages. We will not go into all the details now, but I wanted to say that the Prime Minister had promised me this dashboard, so that we know what we will do in the next 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, I received the document this morning, so when I get back I will study it..."
