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HAITIANS WOKE UP THIS MORNING – MONDAY – EXPECTING BIG PROBLEMS WHEN THE MARTELLY/LAMOTHE TEAM APPEARED BEFORE PARLIAMENT, BUT SOME DETAILS REVEAL THE PRI – BELIZAIRE – ARISTIDE/LAVALAS AGITATION IS REALLY AN EFFORT TO DEFLECT REVELATION OF CRIMINALITY – OR INCOMPETENCE

   January 14, 2013

January 14, 2012

Deputy Arnel Belizaire faces a lifting of immunity, and imminent arrest, if he goes ahead with plans for paid Aristide/Lavalas agitators to disrupt Prime Minister Lamothe’s appearance before Parliament.

It has now become apparent as to why Belizaire, and his collection of Deputies, do not really want Lamothe’s appearance, but cannot say so. There was great pressure, and publicity underlining  the Chamber of Deputies demand for details of certain projects.  They claimed Lamothe refused, or couldn’t comply. What was originally an arrogant attempt to embarrass the Prime Minister has turned the hose back upon a long list of Deputies, involved in questionable projects and financial charades.

Some would say criminal projects, aimed at stealing the money.

For example, one problem project, so far as certain deputies are concerned, involves a road-building contract in the Jeremie area. This project is already underway, coordinated and funded  by the Mexican government, even as  some deputies are demanding money for what is actually the same project.

In other words, a massive “double-dip.”…or, perhaps, a very thick road. I go for a “steal the cash” concept.

Other projects, proposed by certain deputies, are focused upon using properties   to which Title cannot be guaranteed.

More projects are proposed by deputies, fronting for companies that do not even exist.

And, there is more. Certain projects have been proposed only to have the Deputy’s wives as controlling directors of these projects, even though they have absolutely no expertise in the fields involved.

Haiti has the reputation of being one of the world’s – if not the world’s most corrupt nation. No one will ever stamp out corruption in Haiti or, for that matter,  the United States, Canada, France or anywhere else. However, Prime Minister Lamothe, and his team, try to get the biggest bang for the dollars we have.

Prime Minister Lamothe is not Sister Teresa, but he is doing his best to limit excesses and ensure that funding is used to its best effect in Haiti.

It is time for everyone, the Church, business, what is left of the middle class,  and the rest of our society to take a sober look at where we are, and where we want to go. I am sure that the Nation will not benefit from the Belizaire/Lavalas/Aristide agitation for instability. We have already been down that path a few times.

The old Creole proverb says it: “Bad is better than worse…” Not to say that Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is “bad” but to say that  Prime Minister Lamothe is the best we have had since Duvalier’s departure in 1986…. So  much better than anything the Aristide/Lavalas mob presented before, or offers for our future..

The Nation must remain on course and stay behind the Martelly/Lamothe team for whatever the future may hold.

It is  10:00 A.M. Monday morning and there are rumors of some sort of truce between the imbeciles in the Chamber of Deputies and the  Martelly/Lamothe team. Let’s hope the majority in the Chamber of Deputies takes control and moves forward to solve the real problems facing Haiti now, and in the future.

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  1. Belizaire was a criminal before elections. He remains a continued criminal now with immunities. This is a Preval gift to us we must life with?

  2. Haiti – Politic : Deplorable spectacle in Parliament
    15/01/2013 09:25:46

    This second Monday of January, opening of the first ordinary session of the legislative year, in accordance with the prescribed of the Article 98.3, of the Haitian Constitution, in the presence of the diplomatic corps and personalities of the political class, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe made the deposit of the balance of the Government before the Office of the National Assembly, in an atmosphere of great parliamentary agitation. The deputies of minority bloc “Parliamentarians for Institutional Strengthening” (PRI) prevented by a chorus of bells, whistles and booed hostile, the Prime Minister, to make the traditional reading of his balance. Unable to read its balance sheet, the Head of Government left the podium and delivered his document in a great uproar “I respect the requirements of the Constitution by submitting to the Office of the National Assembly copies of the balance sheet of the governmental action for 2012 and perspectives for 2013.” Calm and relaxed, the Prime Minister deplored the hostile atmosphere in Parliament.

    125 copies were made available to parliamentarians and Ady Jean Gardy, the Minister of Communication indicated that the Prime Minister remained available to answer any questions from parliamentarians on its balance sheet.

    The Deputy Sadrac Dieudonné, Head of PRI, indignantly, accuses Laurent Lamothe to not having responded to several invitations as well as a meeting of the PRI, and his colleagues promise to continue their disruptive actions, as long as their community has not received the funds budgeted…

    “Unthinkable and unfortunate for democracy,” declared the Deputy Abel Descollines, who sees in this disorder, an act that casts a negative image of the Parliament.

    For Senator Pierre Francky Exius, the Prime Minister has not complied with the Constitution “he must first make the presentation of his balance sheet before filing it to the Office of the National Assembly,” criticizing the office, to have taking note of the deposit without the prior reading “the Head of Government should resign […] the Parliament, should become aware of the state of things to interpellate Lamothe as soon as possible.”

    HL/ S/ HaitiLibre

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