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"Development bank to boost Haiti aid
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The Inter-American Development Bank will double its aid to Haiti next year to help the impoverished nation upgrade its crumbling infrastructure and broaden social programs, the bank's chief announced yesterday.
In comments at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, IDB president Luis Alberto Moreno said the bank will double its grants to Haiti to $100 million for 2009 to help the country's government with a raft of vital investments.
"Haiti is the most fragile of our member countries. No other nation in Latin America and the Caribbean is as vulnerable to economic shocks and natural disasters," Moreno said. "It requires extraordinary assistance from the international community."
A few months ago, about 800 people were confirmed dead after four storms hit Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. Rural families already struggling with soaring food prices lost their safety nets when fields were destroyed and livestock wiped out by the storms, which caused $1 billion worth of damage in August and September.
About $15 million of the money would be earmarked for potable water and sanitation projects in the storm-ravaged cities of Gonaives, Port de Paix, Les Cayes, Ouanaminthe, and Saint Marc.
THAT'S IT?
Moreno said the IDB board also approved $14 million in interim debt relief for Haiti for the first half of 2009. The development bank has been providing Haiti $50 million in grants a year since 2007.
--more--"Well, I'm glad for the debt relief.
How about wiping out the WHOLE THING?
Oh, that's right, that would conflict with BANKERS and their INTEREST!
"The Haiti government is still obligated to use what little money it has to pay off the debt to international financial institutions.... nearly $1 million per week"
Couldn't the Haitians find BETTER USES for that money?
Notice how the GOD AWFUL SUFFERING of BLACK PEOPLE was ONCE AGAIN CENSORED by the racist, Zionist-controlled AmeriKan MSM?
