Well, business people with something to offer Haiti have to stay somewhere. If they knew they were staying in shanty towns they would be far less likely to assist.
And Tourism in a beautiful Caribbean island is a legitimate form of commerce and development. On 24 March 2013 13:20, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 06/27/2012 > > As part of the countrys Reconstruction, The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund > recently invested $2 million in the Royal Oasis Hotel, a deluxe structure > to be built in a poverty-stricken metropolitan area filled with > displaced-persons camps housing hundreds of thousands. Royal Oasis belongs > to a Haitian investment group (SCIOP SA) and will be managed by the Spanish > chain Occidental Hotels & Resorts. > > In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, people in the US, Canada > and the EU, who made donations to those humanitarian organisations and NGOs > did not realize that their contribution to Haitis reconstruction would be > channeled towards the building of five star hotels to house foreign > businessmen. Their expectation was that the money would be used to provide > food and housing for the Haitian people ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362045 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
