BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - BOTH THE President of Haiti Michel Martelly, and Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, have separately lamented the continuing defaults in aid pledges for the reconstruction of earthquake devastated Haiti.
Their interventions to lament this sad reality coincided with the third anniversary of the unprecedented wreckage of a country and single largest death toll (at least a quarter million) caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake in what for generations has been surviving as the most poverty stricken nation in the Caribbean/Latin American region.
Apart from the death toll, more than 300 000 Haitians were rendered homeless and forced to dwell in makeshift tents for months. Caribbean and Latin American governments were to hastily scramble to provide urgent medical and other forms of humanitarian aid.