"For Haiti, new possibilities lie in reconstruction effort" by Henri E. Cauvin, Washington Post | March 7, 2010
This has the feeling of those feel-good s*** pieces that came after Katrina, 'murkn.
They haven't even cleaned up yet and the aid effort failed, a**holes.
PETIONVILLE, Haiti - Here on the hills above Port-au-Prince, a vision for a very different capital is taking shape.
In a loft of architectural offices, a map of greater Port-au-Prince promises a reordering of the country’s historic capital, overtaken long ago by sprawl and slums and struck in January by a cataclysmic earthquake.
“Expressway’’ is etched along the city’s winding seaboard. “New Housing Area’’ is written over a swath of undeveloped land far from the detritus of downtown. And “Debris’’ is written in several spots where it is to be put to constructive use.
Presiding over the map, and over the massive reconstruction effort that will define the country for generations, is a Haitian-born Howard University graduate who serves as Haiti’s tourism minister.
Working out of spare space far from his destroyed downtown offices, Patrick Delatour must sell a future for Haiti to his people and an audience of international donors, who will help fund an urban rebirth starting from virtually zero....
While the international response to the Jan. 12 earthquake was swift, the international role in reconstruction is still taking shape, slowed by the scale of the humanitarian crisis and freighted by the often prickly relationship between the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country and the foreign actors who have loomed so large in its history.
Yeah, don't tell us all the dirty s***, WaPo!
Also see: No Quarter For Haiti
Yeah, that AID EFFORT that the WaPo is trumpeting as a success is a FAILURE!
But, hey, what's ONE MORE MSM LIE anyway?
The earthquake has spurred talk of remaking not only the capital and the country, but also those complicated ties between Haiti and the rest of the world. Foreign governments, concerned about corruption, have long channeled much of their aid through nongovernmental organizations. That arrangement, some Haitians say, has stunted the Haitian government’s own development and given the nongovernmental organizations an outsize role that comes with little accountability for the country’s persistent poverty.
It is a GOOD WAY to COVER ORGAN-HARVESTING OPERATIONS and SEX SLAVE SYNDICATES, readers!
Since the earthquake, foreign government and international organizations have been trying to send a different message, noting, at almost every opportunity, the role that the Haitian government has played in the rescue and relief operations and the leading role that it will play in the reconstruction of the country.
Even though it is corrupt as s***:
Haitian Government Holding Homeless Hostage
It is the same everywhere, isn't it?
Soon in New York, the international community’s commitment to Haiti’s reconstruction will face its first big test. At a meeting of donor nations and international organizations, the Haitian government is to present its preliminary reconstruction plan, which it hopes will set the stage for a large and lasting commitment by the rest of the world....
Why did it take a DISASTER like this to do it?
You know, if they REALLY CARED about Haitians the place would not have been a s*** hole.
Before the earthquake, about a quarter of Haiti’s nearly 10 million people lived in and around Port-au-Prince, many of them in dozens of slums that dot the capital region. But the problems that imperiled Port-au-Prince have some of their roots in distant, desperate corners of Haiti that for years have sent so many of their young people to the big city in search of work.
As the country’s leaders cast the earthquake as an opportunity to remake the capital, the outcome of their efforts could turn as much on creating jobs in agriculture and tourism as drawing up a charming esplanade and a bigger airport for Port-au-Prince....
That kind of talk DISGUSTS ME!!
Related: Give Haiti control over its recovery
Another agenda-pushing op.
Yup, it is ALL HOPE and COMFORT now!!
"In quake’s aftermath, a call to comfort" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | March 7, 2010
The day the powerful earthquake struck Haiti, a friend had spotted Eliezer Romeus inside a government building before it collapsed. At home in Massachusetts, nobody could believe that his brief trip to Haiti might have ended in tragedy.
Days passed, then weeks, and a curtain of resignation hung over them. Nobody wanted to say that he was lost.
Finally, his loved ones turned to the only place they could for comfort: their church.
“I can hardly accept the fact that I am standing here today leading the memorial service,’’ Pastor Soliny Védrine said from the pulpit at the Boston Missionary Baptist Church one recent Saturday, fighting his own grief to lead the church through the loss of Romeus, one of their longest-serving deacons. “I was starting to write down the words, but I kept postponing it. I felt that I was in a dream.’’
“Eliezer,’’ he told the congregation, “is gone.’’
In the aftermath of the devastating Jan. 12 quake, Haitian churches across Greater Boston have greatly expanded their role as the social and spiritual center of a vibrant immigrant community.
Always with the agenda-pushing, 'eh, Glob?
They provide emergency services to a traumatized flock - tending to grief-stricken mourners, families struggling to send money to relatives in Haiti, and shellshocked quake survivors who fled the disaster and now jump at every shout or slammed door.
Because pastors are so trusted, congregants are turning to them for help beyond religious services.
Too bad our priests are a bunch of perverts.
The Golgotha Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Roslindale collected winter coats for the newcomers. St. Angela’s Catholic church in Boston invited federal immigration officials to Mass last weekend to tell immigrants how to apply for legal residency.
Yeah, that whole immigration "debate" a fraud, too.
At 2 p.m. today, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley will preside over a Mass in Boston to mourn the dead.
I'm sure the Globe will cover that.
Also see: O'Malley's Odyssey
Good thing it won't be longer than one day, huh?
That all the stamina the Globe have?
Actually, that explains all the one-day wonders, invisible inks, and censorship.
Globe have ADD or something?
In Greater Boston and beyond, more than 50 churches serve about 60,000 Haitians living in Massachusetts, the third-largest community in the United States. The churches are so vital that state health commissioner John Auerbach recently insisted that nonprofit health centers collaborate with the churches to spend $525,000 in emergency state grants for post-quake services.
Yeah, that kind of thing is okay in the Zionist press as long as you are not White Christian.
The added responsibilities are placing the sanctuaries under unprecedented strain at a time when donations are likely to suffer.
Hey, we are ALL FEELING IT and not because of earthquake.
“Many of [the clergy] have had to continue ministering to people in their own communities at the same time as they’re dealing with their own personal grief,’’ said Richard Chacón, executive director of the state Office for Refugees and Immigrants. “That shows a remarkable depth of strength that they have to be able to shoulder both of those burdens.’’
Like a psychoshrink?
In Mattapan, the Greater Boston Nazarene Compassionate Center is hosting new legal clinics and expanding English classes and a weekly food bank. Demand is growing among local residents for bags of macaroni and cheese, instant milk, and tuna fish because many are forced to send more money to Haiti.
“People are constantly calling and asking for help,’’ said the Rev. Pierre-Louis Zephir, who leads the center.
Even as the earthquake fades from the news, relatives here are battling complex emotions that leave pastors scouring their Bibles for words of comfort - or explanation.
I guess we can consider that MSM foreshadowing, huh?
Agenda complete?
Some people feel angry for no apparent reason.
We have plenty, starting with the s*** hole state and federal governments.
Others feel guilty for being safe in Boston while relatives are at risk in Haiti. Many survivors still feel numb, unable to grieve because the bodies of loved ones have not been found.
Still?
The ministers remind church members that they believe loved ones have gone to heaven and that death is not an ending, but a beginning.
“I’ve been telling them there’s a purpose and reason for it,’’ said the Rev. William P. Joy of St. Angela’s and St. Matthew’s Catholic churches in Boston, which offer Masses in Haitian Creole. “I tell them, ‘You’re here for a purpose. There’s a legacy you have to carry on for those who died, and maybe more of an incentive not to waste your opportunities.’ ’’
No wonder I rarely attend Mass anymore.
Stop the positive preaching in the face of tragedy, will ya?
I want ACTION, dammit!
Pastor Colbert Calixte, of the Golgotha Seventh-day Adventist Church in Roslindale, is providing counseling through a Mattapan nonprofit. He said he urges congregants to “take a break’’ from images of destruction in Haiti and talk to someone they trust.
That is what the TELEVISION COMMERCIALS TOLD US after 9/11, remember, Americans?
I used to think it was because of the pain; however, now I realize it was so we wouldn't start questioning how those towers fell down.
“When you talk about it, that’s the only way the healing can come,’’ he said.
I AGREE with THAT!!
So, about 9/11....
It took a month and one day for the family and church of 62-year-old Eliezer Romeus to find the words to say goodbye in Boston....
It took me about three seconds to say goodbye to this Globe PoS.
And as predicted:
"Haitians in mind, cardinal offers memorial Mass; Hundreds attend cathedral service" by Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff | March 8, 2010
Remercie Edmond of Mattapan, a nursing assistant, was among 1,800 mostly Haitian-Americans who pinned the Haitian flag colors of blue and red to lapels and yesterday packed the pews of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, where Cardinal Sean O’Malley, recently returned from a three-day visit to Haiti, led a memorial Mass for the victims of the country’s Jan. 12 earthquake.
The service in French and Haitian Creole was by turns somber and hopeful, ending with hundreds of Haitian flags held aloft, fluttering while a trumpet-fronted band led a rendition of “La Dessalinienne,’’ the national Haitian anthem.
O’Malley, delivering the homily in French, sought to comfort the crowd, telling them that death must be considered both an “exit door’’ and an “entrance.’’
“These natural disasters are not a punishment from God,’’ he said, recounting his comments in an interview after the service. “Our God is a merciful God.’’
Yes, MY GOD MOST CERTAINLY IS!!!!
Of course, maybe the Catholic power structure needs to believe that with all the pooper-poking.
O’Malley said in the interview that his visit to Haiti had been a “very moving experience’’ as he viewed “the devastation and all the needs of the people.’’
“It does help to put our problems in perspective,’’ he said.
At the time of his visit, O’Malley was the highest-ranking US church leader to travel to Haiti, which he did with an aim of offering condolence and assessing how to distribute some $35 million in aid from a special collection of US Catholic churches, including $2 million from the Boston Archdiocese.
As he is closing parishes around here?
Edaniel Beauplant of Jamaica Plain, who is a medical interpreter, lost five cousins in the quake - two of their bodies found, three missing. A sixth cousin, a nurse, lost a leg in an amputation.
Beauplant said O’Malley’s efforts have been a source of support.
“He’s living, with the Haitian people, the drama,’’ said Beauplant, who emigrated from Haiti a decade ago. “He knows our problems.’’
Yeah, I do think he is a well-meaning man and one of the few good ones in the church.
Haitians from across the region flocked to the service in the South End yesterday, women in brimmed hats and dresses, men in dark suits and ties, with many coming from Mattapan and Dorchester, home to St. Angela Merici and St. Matthew, two Catholic churches with significant numbers of Haitian congregants, said William Joy, the pastor for both churches, where survivor guilt is common.
Well, when you are losing the flock at home because of the dicking around....
“They’ve been coming to me and saying they feel guilty that they’re here,’’ said Joy, who attended yesterday’s Mass. “I tell them that they have to carry on because God has chosen them and they must not waste their opportunities and gifts.’’
Hey, look, I agree, but I'm tired of being beaten over the head with that one over tragedies. The ELITE NEVER SEEM to SUFFER!!
The two-hour afternoon Mass in the cathedral brought tissues out of purses and summoned sopranos and tenors to join the choir and trumpet-saxophone-drum-guitar band in prayers and psalms. The band and choir formed from churches in and around Boston for the Mass. A catafalque, or platform, was draped and surrounded with requiem candles to signify all who died in the quake....
Yeah, the Catholics do put on a good show.
But back to Haiti now:
"Haiti releases US missionary" by Associated Press | March 9, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - One of the last two US Baptist missionaries held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released yesterday, but the group’s leader remained in custody....
--more--"Related: As Haiti Turns
Haiti All About Adoptions
Update:
A web-censored photograph appeared in my paper today, readers:
A DOUBLE REUNION IN HAITI -- Twin sisters Nacoza (center) and Penny were reunited yesterday with their mother in a truck at the SOS Orphanage on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. They were among 33 children living at the orphanage after their parents gave them to American missionaries about six weeks ago after the devastating quake.
Yeah, Haiti must be rebuilt and back to normal judging by what the Boston Globe has presented me lately, huh, readers?
Also see: Globe Can't Hear Haitian Rain
