Is Haiti the first to fall to gangs?

[Davy]

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[egb_hibs]

Haiti has been a basket case for a long long time.

It’s heretical to say, but they’d be better off with some kind of quasi colonial type occupation by the UN to sort it out. I mean you need 50 to a 100 years of nation building to get out of this sort of situation.

 

[Jack]

For such a tiny country it doesn't half get a lot of attention on the Bounce!

Haiti has been a basket case for as long as it's existed. I not even sure if this latest basket casery is a continuation of the last few basket caseries or a new one!

 

[egb_hibs]

For such a tiny country it doesn't half get a lot of attention on the Bounce!

Haiti has been a basket case for as long as it's existed. I not even sure if this latest basket casery is a continuation of the last few basket caseries or a new one!

When I was in the Dominican Republic our tour guide sagely pronounced on their neighbours; it seemed be the voodoo that was in his estimation, the difference.

Ironic given that Haiti occupied the DR for a while being richer and more powerful at the end of the eras of, respectively, French and Spanish colonialism.

 

[Jack]

Kenya president says police to arrive in Haiti in three weeks

The BBC sat down with Kenya's president during his three-day trip to Washington DC to talk about Haiti and other crises.

www.bbc.co.uk