According to the Industrial Fritz Mevs, the two groups already have a license in good standing with the State funds and staff to create the free zone are already available.

For now, engineers are at the stage of study and evaluation of materials for the construction work should start in two to 3 months, meet all required standards, said Fritz Mevs, adding that inhabitants of the area welcome this project which could create up to 31,000 jobs.

But he stressed that only free zone will be clearly insufficient. The objective is to create at least 40 different regions of the country, he said, pledging that the Soros Group and Win are willing to help all local areas or in the diaspora who want to invest in this field.

The prime mover of a free zone is the youth, a is the Haitian population is in urgent need of work, he said, adding that scaffold creation of free zones in all coastal cities with Les Cayes, Port de Paix, Fort-Liberté …..

But ports should also be attached if possible, to all zones, because it takes boats to transport goods in both directions, said the industrialist Fritz Mevs

What a class act!

In high school French, classes resumed

On the hills, the town hall, which bears on its front the motto of the Republic of Haiti, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, was abandoned because of precarious balance. Its services are transferred across in the local library. Responsible for strengthening the municipal team, one French, Richard Landry, plays a role of superintendent. His mission began well before the earthquake, in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD) and the City of Strasbourg. “It manages the emergency while reorganizing with the desire not to mortgage the future. It is not to rebuild in flood during hurricane, building with seismic standards while many residents want to relocate in a hurry, “said Richard Landry.

A jewel of private secular education in Haiti, the French school-Pommayrac Alcibiades, too, suffered. The primary school collapsed causing no casualties and the school requires the work of rehabilitation. He welcomes Creole and French soon began in kindergarten. The 750 students who pass the end of the tray Haitian Studies and French are selected on merit. Young people from disadvantaged families are privileged to the same level competitions, thanks to a grant system. “We have taken courses outside without waiting for students to pass exams at year end. We welcome others with their rotation to restore faith in the aftermath. We will rehabilitate and rebuild, “says Gerard Borne, facility director and consul of France. Carefully maintained, the gardens are planted with bougainvillea. “Our role is to give these children an education and a framework. Our park is there to show what he can do with the environment, “he said.

But, by the sea, in artists’ quarter, the mood is sullen. The workshops of painters and craftsmen are closed. There will be no carnival in Jacmel this year. The designers still continue to make street costumes and papier-mache masks. One complete uniform of a Devil and winged boots. It will not scroll band this year.

This is the second trip abroad since Mr. Preval the earthquake of January 12, after the Dominican Republic, Haiti’s neighbor.

At the summit of UNASUR, Mr. Préval must expose “the needs and priorities of Haiti” after the quake, according to a statement from the presidency of Haiti.

Before flying to the summit, the president of Haiti has appealed to the people of his country calling again his patience in awaiting the delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected people.

“Today, with the road and telephone communications have been restored with the efforts of organizations, there is more coordination in aid,” said Mr. Préval.

However, he felt it was better to do, especially in terms of quantity, to meet people who are street homeless.

“The rainy season looks and we must strive to meet particularly those in the street,” he said.

Mr Preval had also called his countrymen to stand together to build another decentralized country, developing economies in the province.

“People of Haiti, the situation is not easy for you, it is not the government working in difficult conditions, put our forces together (…) to rebuild another Haiti. Haiti will not die not, “he said. Mr. Preval will return today, said his private secretary.

“Parents of these Americans have not renewed their commitment to my place,” said the lawyer. “Not only  they do not pay me anything until now but they can tarnish my reputation by saying that I asked them for money to bribe the judge,” he protested.

Mr. Coq is in charge of the case of the ten Americans since they were arrested January 29 at the Dominican border with 33 children without identity papers.
They were accused Thursday of “kidnapping minors” and “conspiracy”. On Friday, Mr. Haan had filed an application for parole that the judge rejected after lengthy auditioned group.

The lawyer has told AFP that the families of Baptists from Idaho (north-western United States) had agreed to pay her $ 60,000 fee, which some now. He cited a “misunderstanding”.

Mr. Coq regretted not having received any response from families to the email on Saturday, announcing he was abandoning the case. 

“In discipline, in solidarity, in the patience that we will find the solution to all problems facing us,” said René Préval during a press conference in the police station transformed into headquarters of the government.

Highly criticized by the victims who feel that the Haitian government does not help them, said he understood the “frustration” of its citizens facing delays distributions. “The situation was already difficult before the earthquake, it became even more difficult.

Recalling that a million Haitians were left homeless since the quake and 200,000 tents were needed for housing, he said that ” however, help arrived and as and extent we installed people in shelters. He called for “solidarity in peace (…) not to complicate an already tense situation, already difficult for the people.”

“Sorry that it took so long,” said former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s envoy from the UN in Haiti including the capital Port-au-Prince and its region were devastated by an earthquake, January 12 .

“I try to solve the congestion for the shipment of food is carried in sufficient quantity,” he said, promising that he does not want to pose as “governor” of the stricken country.

Saturday, Colonel Gregory Kane, director of command operations in Haiti, confirmed the continued commitment of U.S. forces on the ground. “We will be in Haiti as it will be useful, the military aspect of the operation, under the experience will probably be 45 to 50 days” in everything he said to the press.

“It is a political decision to be taken by the U.S. government,” he qualified, however. The Pentagon has so far released over 200 million dollars in disaster assistance, according to USAID, the U.S. government agency responsible for development aid. He helped transport assistance, both in men and medical equipment, food and drinking water.

U.S. troops have been deployed up to 22,000 in Haiti or in wide, said Colonel Kane, ensuring that it remained current 17,000 including 7,000 on the ground, providing equipment and distribution of food in 16 different sites.
Meanwhile, the 10 American Baptist arrested January 30 at the Dominican border with 33 children described as orphans but undocumented, should be transferred to the men at the national penitentiary for women in prison in Petion-ville on Heights of Port-au-Prince.

“The judge did not accept the request for provisional release,” said Mr. Cock, leaving the prosecutor’s office where the ten Americans were held all day yesterday. “The judge has issued two mandates for deposits, one for the group of five men who are incarcerated in the national penitentiary, one for five women who will be held at the prison for women in Petion-Ville,” has detailed the lawyer.

Ten Baptist missionaries, who tried to illegally from Haiti exfiltrer thirty children, were charged Thursday of “abduction of minors and criminal conspiracy” and should be tried in Haiti.

The National Penitentiary is the main prison of Port-au-Prince, where much of the 4,000 inmates escaped, taking advantage of the earthquake on January 12. The hearing of inmates will continue next week, “said Mr. Cock.

Ambassador in charge of international adoption Jean-Paul Monchau is “currently in Port-au-Prince for the Haitian authorities to propose a joint mechanism, a bilateral commission, which we can address all out there, records of adoption, “said spokesman Bernard Valero at a news briefing.

This committee is a part designed to “facilitate the processing procedures for which evidence can establish the existence of a court but which can be produced following the earthquake of 12 January, according to a press Valero . And secondly, to “make recommendations for procedures in which no decision had been made Haiti before the earthquake.

The French authorities are in contact with “a little over 900 families,” French and about 950 Haitian children are “involved in adoption procedures,” said the spokesman.

The first priority is to “hasten the arrival in France of Haitian children for whom an adoption order was made by the Haitian justice before the earthquake” or “nearly 400 children,” said Valero. To date, 277 have already joined their French family for adoption and “Other arrivals are planned in the coming days,” he said, adding that each of these departures had been “approved” by the Haitian authorities.

However, I expect that the “international  Haitian community”, an expression of my friend Jacky Lumarque, Rector of the University Quisqueya, is present in greater numbers. It is, of course, fortunately, but too weak to make a difference and influence future decisions. I therefore make this appeal to note how the emergency and reconstruction in Haiti likely to be without the Haitians. Not because foreigners want to exclude Haitians, but because the Haitian elites, particularly those from abroad, are not visible in this huge international effort of solidarity.
The participation of the vast reservoir of human resources of the Haitian foreign relief is far too low and it is extremely worrying for reconstruction in Haiti. 80% of qualified human resources are outside the country and more than ever the country can manage without this human capital expatriate. I remain convinced, for example, a greater presence of this international Haitian community, through its organizations and its leaders, would immediately make progress in better management and coordination of international assistance . It would be a shame to miss this great moment of leadership.

I greet all the compatriots in Haiti and abroad, professionals or not the emergency that gave everything they could as volunteers to transport the wounded, helping others under those slabs of concrete , clearing the streets, picking up the dead, organize families in the affected areas, distribute food and water. Take for example  the University Quisqueya. Although devastated, she has mobilized its remaining space and staff present in Port-au-Prince to hold on its two campuses (which has again been completely destroyed) two care units. This mainly with the help of foreign doctors (American and Slovak) and a strong involvement of its students. I also think college Universe Ouanaminthe, which prompted doctors, teachers, parents, a truck to distribute food aid in Port-au-Prince and participate in the relief effort. I see some restaurants in Port-au-Prince turn into soup kitchen for children at certain times. Some individuals offer the courtyard of their house to welcome neighbors momentarily neighborhood. The most touching is to meet the Haitians and the Haitian on these public spaces transformed into a camp for homeless people, talk and share with the victims. When we lost everything, a word of comfort is as much or more than thousands of water bottles.

I am pleased that all these efforts of my compatriots continue even with their limited resources. Nothing can replace or substitute for it, because it is nearby. Once again, condolences to the entire Haitian families. Haiti will rise again, I am convinced, if we organize themselves accordingly and if the international community that Haiti has so many ideas and resources invested, effectively. This also implies and urgent measures (eg dual nationality) for that beyond the emergency, this investment can be sustained. It is necessary to “re-build” parallel this Haitian family dislocated from inside and outside, divided by all sorts of divisions to give the sense of a common future. This is the sense that all this effort of solidarity towards Haitians Haitians, even if weak and disorganized is hopeful and is encouraged.

As for economic reconstruction, it will be a slow task, difficult, frustrating, where few resources are present at the beginning are still active. Soon the cameras around the world will go away. This will be the turn of Haitians, regardless of where they live, to fulfill their destiny with the passing and the sense of responsibility to live up to this tragedy. Only then will the decisive support of the “international community” will be effective.