Valable jusqu'au 14 mars 2010 Situation synoptique dans la Caraïbe et sur l'Atlantique La zone de haute pression (beau temps) continue de dominer la météo de la caraïbe ce matin. Par ailleurs, un front froid est prévu pour être dans nos murs dès dimanche soir. Prévisions pour Haïti - Temps clément ce matin ; - Quelques passages nuageux en fin de journée et en début de soirée ; - Températures agréables en soirée ; - Faible chance de pluie sur nos départements ce soir. Prévisions pour Port-au-Prince et environs · Temps ensoleillé ce matin ; · Quelques nuages en fin de journée ; · Tº. max. : 32ºC ; Tº min: 22ºC ; · Faible chance de pluie ce soir. Lever & coucher du soleil pour Port-au-Prince Aujourd'hui 12 Mars. Lever : 06h 00 mn Coucher : 05h 58 mn Samedi 13 Mars. Lever : 05h 59 mn Coucher : 05h 59 mn Dimanche 14 Mars. Lever : 05h 58 mn Coucher : 05h 59 mn Jacquet Jackson, Prévisionniste au CNM Bulletin météo marine du vendredi 12 Mars 2010 Valable jusqu'au 13 mars 2010 Prévisions maritimes: Zone côtière nord : Vendredi & samedi * Vent du secteur sud-est à sud : 15-25 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues: 5 à 8 pieds ; * Mer plus ou moins agitée ; * Les voiliers doivent prendre des précautions en mer. Golfe de la Gonâve : Vendredi & samedi * Vent du secteur est : 10-15 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues : 3 à 5 pieds ; * Mer peu agitée. Zone côtière sud : Vendredi & samedi * Vent du secteur est : 10-15 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues : 3 à 5 pieds ; * Mer peu agitée. Jacquet Jackson, Prévisionniste au CNM |
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vendredi 12 mars 2010
Bulletin météo du vendredi 12 mars 2010.
Bulletin météo du jeudi 11 mars 2010.
Valable jusqu'au 13 mars 2010 Situation synoptique dans la Caraïbe et sur l'Atlantique La caraïbe centrale est encore sous l'influence d'une zone de haute pression (beau temps) ce matin. Par conséquent, les activités de pluie sont de plus en plus réduites sur Haïti durant les prochaines 48 heures. Prévisions pour Haïti - Temps partiellement ensoleillé ce matin ; - Quelques passages nuageux cet après-midi et en début de soirée ; - Températures agréables en soirée ; - Pluie isolée légère possible dans le sud-est, le centre et le nord-est. Prévisions pour Port-au-Prince et environs · Beau temps ce matin ; · Quelques nuages en fin de journée ; · Tº. max. : 32ºC ; Tº min: 22ºC ; · Faible chance de pluie ce soir. Lever & coucher du soleil pour Port-au-Prince Aujourd'hui 11 Mars. Lever : 06h 00 mn Coucher : 05h 58 mn Vendredi 12 Mars. Lever : 06h 00 mn Coucher : 05h 58 mn Samedi 13 Mars. Lever : 05h 59 mn Coucher : 05h 59 mn Jacquet Jackson, Prévisionniste au CNM Bulletin météo marine du jeudi 11 Mars 2010 Valable jusqu'au 12 mars 2010 Prévisions maritimes: Zone côtière nord : Jeudi & vendredi * Vent du secteur est sud-est: 10-15 nœuds, devenant sud-est à sud : 15-20 nœuds vendredi; * Hauteur des vagues: 4 à 7 pieds aujourd'hui, mais allant de : 5 à 8 pieds demain ; * Mer plus ou moins agitée ; * Les voiliers doivent prendre des précautions en mer. Golfe de la Gonâve : Jeudi & vendredi * Vent du secteur est : 10-15 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues : 3 à 5 pieds ; * Mer peu agitée. Zone côtière sud : Jeudi & vendredi * Vent du secteur est sud-est : 10-15 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues : 3 à 5 pieds ; * Mer peu agitée. Jacquet Jackson, Prévisionniste au CNM |
jeudi 11 mars 2010
Bulletin météo du mercredi 10 mars 2010.
Valable jusqu'au 12 mars 2010 Situation synoptique dans la Caraïbe et sur l'Atlantique La zone de haute pression (beau temps) de l'atlantique continue d'influencer la météo de la caraïbe ce matin. Cette situation limite les activités de pluie sur notre région aujourd'hui et demain. Prévisions pour Haïti - Temps partiellement ensoleillé ce matin. - Passages nuageux cet après-midi et en début de soirée. - Températures agréables en soirée ; - Faible chance de pluie sur nos départements ce soir. Prévisions pour Port-au-Prince et environs · Temps clément ce matin ; · Passages nuageux en fin de journée ; · Tº. max. : 31ºC ; Tº min: 22ºC ; · Faible chance de pluie ce soir. Lever & coucher du soleil pour Port-au-Prince Aujourd'hui 10 Mars. Lever : 06h 01 mn Coucher : 05h 58 mn Jeudi 11 Mars. Lever : 06h 00 mn Coucher : 05h 58 mn Vendredi 11 Mars. Lever : 06h 00 mn Coucher : 05h 58 mn Jacquet Jackson, Prévisionniste au CNM Bulletin météo marine du mercredi 10 Mars 2010 Valable jusqu'au 11 mars 2010 Prévisions maritimes: Zone côtière nord : Mercredi & jeudi * Vent du secteur est sud-est: 10-20 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues: 4 à 6 pieds aujourd'hui ; * Mer plus ou moins agitée ; Golfe de la Gonâve : Mercredi & jeudi * Vent du secteur est : 15-20 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues : 6 à 8 pieds ; * Mer plus ou moins agitée à agitée ; * Les voiliers doivent prendre des précautions en mer. Zone côtière sud : Mercredi & jeudi * Vent du secteur est 15-20 nœuds ; * Hauteur des vagues : 6 à 8 pieds ; * Mer plus ou moins agitée à agitée; * Les voiliers doivent prendre des précautions en mer. Jacquet Jackson, Prévisionniste au CNM |
mercredi 10 mars 2010
Stanley Lucas on René Préval's visit to Washington
It is striking that the only result announced as a result of Preval's visit is a new UN Red Helmut task force. The only thing he asked for was support for elections in November. This is astounding. People were expecting results from this trip and it seems he is going back with nothing. It is also striking that he asked for no help to weather the upcoming hurricane season which starts in two months. Sixteen hurricanes are forecast for the summer. Can you imagine what will happen? People still don't even have tents to live in. For a summary of specific requests he could have made, see http://solutionshaiti.blogspot.com/2010/03/haitian-president-visits-dc-what.html
It is equally striking that there is a reported blueprint being developed for Haiti's reconstruction. In fact, this was a plan developed by Jeffrey Sachs, the renowned poverty expert, and being filled out by international aid workers and some representatives of the Haitian business cartel on the ground. Not one city mayor has been consulted. None of the Haitian Ministers are involved. No one from the private sector, outside of the business cartel, have been consulted. And none of the Diaspora community, which has made repeated offers to come back and support rebuilding, have been included. Quite the opposite -- they have been actively excluded and barred from the process.
The list of people named in this article are the same old guard -- both from the international community and the Haitian community. They have been in charge of Haiti for the past 20 years and you can see where Haiti is as a result of their efforts. It is time for some change and a new guard. Expecting new results from the same old people is futile -- and the very definition of insanity.
Stanley Lucas
www.solutionshaiti.blogspot.com
Obama renews backing of earthquake-stricken Haiti
By Mary Beth Sheridan, William Booth and William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 10, 2010; 2:31 PM
President Obama pledged enduring U.S. support on Wednesday for Haiti's recovery and reconstruction following its devastating earthquake two months ago, and the visiting Haitian president urged the creation of a special U.N. disaster relief force.
"The situation on the ground remains dire, and people should be under no illusions that the crisis is over" in Haiti, Obama said after a meeting with Haitian President René Préval. With the onset of the spring rainy season, Haitians' needs "will only grow," Obama said, adding, "The challenge now is to prevent a second disaster."
Appearing with Préval in the White House Rose Garden, Obama said, "America's commitment to Haiti's recovery and reconstruction must endure and will endure. . . . America will be your partner in the recovery and reconstruction effort."
Préval thanked the United States and the international community for what he called "the massive, spontaneous, generous help" that Haiti received in response to its "unimaginable" disaster. But he said the effectiveness of such efforts "must be improved," and he expressed support for the "creation of so-called 'red helmets' within the United Nations," a humanitarian response force for natural disasters that would be the equivalent of U.N. peacekeepers, who traditionally wear blue helmets.
Obama and Préval spoke before an audience of lawmakers, administration officials, representatives of private relief groups, Haitian American community leaders and American service members and civilians who worked in Haiti after the earthquake, including personnel from the USNS Comfort hospital ship and members of urban search and rescue teams from Fairfax County, Virginia Beach, Los Angeles, Miami and New York. Both leaders expressed their gratitude to those who participated in the rescue and relief efforts.
The Comfort ended its relief mission off the Haitian coast Wednesday and began a four-day journey back to its home port of Baltimore after treating more than 800 earthquake victims over seven weeks.
Préval arrived in Washington on Tuesday in search of additional U.S. and international help for his beleaguered nation, where the economy is stalled, crops have gone unplanted and a million people remain homeless.
The Haitian government is racing to finish a blueprint on which it will base its requests for potentially record-breaking aid commitments at a United Nations conference in three weeks. The Jan. 12 quake killed more than 200,000 people out of a population approaching 9.8 million, and the Inter-American Development Bank has estimated that the damage could hit $14 billion.
Saying that the Haitian disaster "defies comprehension" even now, Obama on Wednesday offered what he described as "some perspective on the awful scale" of the country's losses.
"It's as if the United States, in a terrible instant, lost nearly 8 million people; or it's as if one-third of our country -- 100 million Americans -- suddenly had no home, no food or water," Obama said. "No nation could respond to such a catastrophe alone. It would require a global response."
Préval said the Haitian disaster carries "lessons for all of mankind" and warned that many other nations are in jeopardy.
"The countries that have seismic risks are not merely those countries which are located on top of seismic faults," he said. He noted that tsunamis resulting from earthquakes "threaten other regions as well as the United States."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday after talks with Préval that "progress has been made, but not nearly enough, and therefore we are holding these meetings . . . to discuss in depth what we need to do still to alleviate suffering and what we will do together to help build back Haiti better."
Among the few specifics she offered was that Préval is eager to hold parliamentary elections. A vote had been scheduled for February but was canceled because of the disaster.
"I assured President Préval that the United States would work with the international community to hold elections as soon as possible," Clinton said.
With the March 31 donors conference rapidly approaching, U.S. officials and lawmakers appeared eager to nail down Haiti's priorities and plans. Congressional staffers said they expect the administration to request an aid package of between $1 billion and $3 billion in the coming weeks.
Préval faced a sympathetic but skeptical audience in his meetings in Washington, where officials have seen past assistance to Haiti evaporate in a miasma of mismanagement and corruption.
Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff and point person on Haiti, said U.S. officials "want to have an understanding of their long-term goals, of the priorities they have, and their vision for doing things differently."
In Haiti, about 300 people have been scrambling to put together what many simply call "the plan" -- officially, a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment -- that will be presented at the U.N. conference.
A draft is scheduled to be completed in the next week.
Drawn up by Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, who is also the minister of planning, with the assistance of imported development wonks and aid bureaucrats, the plan is being touted as a founding document for a new Haiti -- not only a wish list for food, tarps and medicine, but a road map to move beyond a legacy of dependence. It will include a vision for the next five, 10 and 15 years, officials said.
Drafts of the plan call for the decentralization of power, population and industry away from the teeming, ravaged capital to the environmentally degraded countryside, which the plan says could bloom again, with solar-powered irrigation systems and mango processing facilities -- as well as flower farms shuttling fresh-cut bouquets by cargo jet to Montreal, Miami and New York.
The plan suggests social engineering on a vast scale, which would involve unprecedented levels of public and private investment in Haiti.
"We are saying that a disaster is a terrible thing to waste, and that if we are ever to make Haiti into a nation that can actually sustain itself, then we must dream big dreams," said Leslie Voltaire, a Haitian city planner, architect and one of the more forceful contributors to the plan.
In a conference room at a damaged, unoccupied luxury hotel in Port-au-Prince, where the plan is being typed on loaner laptops under palm trees, the authors imagine transforming an overcrowded, dysfunctional capital city into a revived and smaller urban center with a sewage system and green belts replacing some of the fetid slums. They see seaside promenades with bicycle paths being built with recycled earthquake rubble.
"We are trying to remake 206 years of history in two months," said Bernard Craan, a mango producer and leader of a business think tank. "Normally you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I have seen people work together on these visions who have not spoken to each other in years. There is a new approach."
According to the plan, the billions of dollars in assistance would likely be managed by a multi-donor trust fund, whose multinational board of directors would make most of the important spending decisions in the country.
Eduardo Almeida, head of the Inter-American Development Bank office in Haiti, said the plan might call for billions of dollars in investments in construction, tourism, government services and especially agriculture -- for irrigation, fertilizer, roads and processing plants.
Haiti is a rural, once-bountiful country with a large peasantry, but it cannot feed itself. As much as 70 percent of its food is imported.
Booth reported from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Haitian president moves to shore up aid, new future.
With his country's economy stalled, crops unplanted and a million people without homes, Haitian President René Préval began a visit to Washington Tuesday to focus on how U.S. and international donors can help the beleaguered nation recover from a devastating earthquake.
The Haitian government is racing to finish a blueprint on which it will to base its requests for potentially record-breaking aid commitments at a United Nations conference this month. The Jan. 12 quake killed more than 200,000 people, and the Inter-American Development Bank has estimated that the damage could hit $14 billion.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday after talks with Préval that "progress has been made, but not nearly enough, and therefore we are holding these meetings . . . to discuss in depth what we need to do still to alleviate suffering and what we will do together to help build back Haiti better."
Among the few specifics she offered was that Préval is eager to hold parliamentary elections. A vote had been scheduled for February but was canceled because of the disaster.
"I assured President Préval that the United States would work with the international community to hold elections as soon as possible," Clinton said.
With the March 31 donors conference rapidly approaching, U.S. officials and lawmakers appeared eager to nail down Haiti's priorities and plans. Congressional staffers said they expect the administration to request an aid package of between $1 billion and $3 billion in the coming weeks.
Préval is likely to find a sympathetic but skeptical audience when he meets with President Obama, congressional leaders and other officials who have seen past assistance to Haiti evaporate in a miasma of mismanagement and corruption.
Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff and point person on Haiti, said U.S. officials "want to have an understanding of their long-term goals, of the priorities they have, and their vision for doing things differently."
In Haiti, about 300 people have been scrambling to put together what many simply call "the plan" -- officially, a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment -- that will be presented at the U.N. conference.
A draft is scheduled to be completed in the next week.
Drawn up by Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, who is also the minister of planning, with the assistance of imported development wonks and aid bureaucrats, the plan is being spoken of as a founding document for a new Haiti -- not only a wish list for food, tarps and medicine, but a road map to move beyond a legacy of dependence. It will include a vision for the next five, 10 and 15 years, officials said.
Drafts of the plan call for the decentralization of power, population and industry away from the teeming, ravaged capital to the environmentally degraded countryside, which the plan says could bloom again, with solar-powered irrigation systems and mango processing facilities -- and flower farms shuttling fresh-cut bouquets by cargo jet to Montreal, Miami and New York.
The plan suggests social engineering on a vast scale, which would involve levels of public and private investment in Haiti never really imagined before.
"We are saying that a disaster is a terrible thing to waste, and that if we are ever to make Haiti into a nation that can actually sustain itself, then we must dream big dreams," said Leslie Voltaire, a city planner, architect and one of the more forceful contributors to the plan.
In a conference room at a damaged, unoccupied luxury hotel in Port-au-Prince, where the plan is being typed on loaner laptops under palm trees, the authors imagine transforming an overcrowded, dysfunctional capital city into a revived and smaller urban center with a sewage system and green belts replacing some of the fetid slums. They see seaside promenades with bicycle paths being built with recycled earthquake rubble.
"We are trying to remake 206 years of history in two months," said Bernard Craan, a mango producer and leader of a business think tank. "Normally you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I have seen people work together on these visions who have not spoken to each other in years. There is a new approach."
According to the plan, the billions of dollars in assistance will likely be managed by a multi-donor trust fund, whose multinational board of directors will, for all intents, make most of the important spending decisions in the country.
Eduardo Almeida, head of the Inter-American Development Bank office in Haiti, said the plan might call for billions of dollars in investments in construction, tourism, government services and especially agriculture -- for irrigation, fertilizer, roads and processing plants.
Haiti is a rural, once-bountiful country with a large peasantry, but it cannot feed itself. As much as 70 percent of its food is imported.
Booth reported from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
How We Haitians Can Turn January 12th Into An Opportunity.
| By Frandley Denis Julien The outpouring of support bestowed on Haiti by the international community is as comforting in its compassion as the Earthquake was unforgiving in its destructive rage. This disaster has created such an awareness of Haiti's subhuman misery, that some foreign journalists have reached unprecedented levels of compassionate reporting, while private citizens from all over the world are setting records in donations, at a time of global economic uncertainty, to say the least. It is, however, important we all realize that what happened in Haiti on January 12th was not just an earthquake, but rather the foretold encounter between a natural disaster and decades of poor human decisions. Therefore, if the international aid is not matched by a drastic paradigm shift from us Haitians in all aspects pertaining to our social contract, there is no rationale behind rebuilding Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Leogane and Les Cayes. Unfortunately, we have done nothing so far to distill the part of human causation in the catastrophe, thus creating the conditions for similar tragedies to be recurrent. A comparative analysis with the situation in Chile — hit over the week-end by an earthquake 500 times stronger than the one that destroyed Port-au-Prince— should be edifying enough in determining the role played by human decisions, or lack thereof, in maximizing the impact of the disaster in Haiti. The earthquake took all us Haitians by surprise, from our president whose deficit of common sense—among other critical shortages—was displayed on global TV, to our failed elites who had to wake up and smell the coffee for a change, to the masses that have been freely and enthusiastically making poor choices at the ballot for the last two decades, to the diaspora that is unable to find a way back toward total integration in its own country without violating the law of the land, despite being the main source of revenue to the impoverished nation. Today, Haiti is at a crossroads where we have to make some drastic decisions as to what—from a very heteroclite historical baggage—to jettison and what to bring along with us in the new post January 12th era. While the entire world has been mesmerized by our resilience, we must realize that if this energy is not properly channeled toward a redefinition of the rules of the game, the predicament at hand will get the best of us. The greatness of a nation has more to do with recognizing the defining moments and rising up to them, than with constantly referring to a glorious past when the expectations of the present are not met. Today, we have to make a definitive choice between a government with not even an evacuation plan for the president, and one that can lead us with confidence through an era of development and prosperity, between a backward-looking mentality and a forward-looking mindset, between individual survival and a collective vista on the future, between corruption and accountability, between self-serving leaders and true public servants, between dependency and self-sustainability. Neither a well-written plan, nor all the money in the world can solve Haiti's problems. For a country to achieve sustained development and irreversible democracy, its institutions must rely on a strong conceptual framework, defined by the social contract. The United-States with the "Federalist Papers', France with the "5th Republic", Canada with the "Quiet Revolution", the first quite early, and the two others rather late in their History, have taken the time to shape their institutions in accordance with their values and aspirations. As for us Haitians, soon after our independence, we woke up with a de facto social contract consecrating the survival of the fittest, and a broken social ladder; throughout our History, public corruption, tax evasion, illicit enrichment and drug trafficking have been the factors through which upward mobility is achieved. It is essential that we fix the social ladder by democratizing and improving our educational system, and by starting to enforce our laws. A better educated people will shift from the cult of personality to the valorization of ideas in its political choices. As Port-au-Prince has been turned into Ground Zero, the government would be well-inspired to show some humility and belated leadership by calling for a political truce, and devoting the remainder of the president's term to the organization of a National Conference. This event would gather representatives from all sectors and regions of the country along with the diaspora, in an effort to: - Define a consensual vision for the next 50 years. - Revise the constitution. - Perform our autocriticism and identify the cultural and institutional barriers that prevent Haitian citizens from succeeding at home, while they thrive abroad. - Fix the social ladder that has been broken for some 200 years. The National Conference would have to produce clear answers to three fundamental questions: 1- How to contain the natural penchant of all governments to strip the citizenry of the exercise of national sovereignty. Addressing this question will allow us to redesign our institutions in a way that prevents authoritative deviances, by establishing an effective system of checks and balances. 2- How, through the definition of a consensual vision, to integrate the interests of all in the determination of the collective interest. It is time that everyone be invited to the table for the long overdue upfront sharing of the national little pie. Once the national vision defined, everyone will be able to envision their own upward mobility and that of their progeny over time, within the bigger picture of a vibrant and developing country. 3- How to instill in each Haitian the sense of belonging without which there is no social link. Once it is determined that everyone had been given a level playing field, all of us will be eager to build the new Haiti, knowing that the fruits of the prosperity to come will be distributed according to the principles of justice and equity. The National Conference will also provide us with an opportunity to perform the psychoanalysis of ourselves. Our current mentality eloquently expressed through our "popular wisdom" is incompatible with progress and development. Sayings like "pito nou led nou la" (we'd better be ugly than dead) "lower our expectations, whereas those like "depi nan ginen ne gap trayi neg" (Since Africa Negroes have been betraying Negroes) are divisive. We need to boost our national self-esteem and start believing in the likelihood of the Haitian dream. Until we reach this level of collective consciousness, we will not be able to achieve prosperity, irrespective of the amount of money the International Community injects into our economy. At this defining moment of Haiti's tumultuous History, those who have experienced the earthquake firsthand are rightly afraid of what the future has in store for the country. By striking us blindly and indistinctly, the earthquake has reminded us that we are sharing the same boat, and that none of us can make it to shore while others are sinking. If we can outgrow our differences and commit to creating a normal country with only normal problems, we can turn January 12th into the long overdue wake up call. If not, the next tragedy will surprise us in our sleep. Frandley Denis Julien Fjuli001@fiu.edu |
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