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Phoenix Arisen-the New Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti - YouTube
Showing posts with label Haiti Resurrection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiti Resurrection. Show all posts
Friday, March 8, 2013
Saturday, May 12, 2012
GOLD! Haiti eyes potential $20 billion boom - World news - Americas - msnbc.com
TROU DU NORD, Haiti — Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills — and silver and copper, too.
A flurry of exploratory drilling in the past year has found precious metals worth potentially $20 billion deep below the tropical ridges in the country's northeastern mountains. Now, a mining company is drilling around the clock to determine how to get those metals out.
In neighboring Dominican Republic, workers are poised to start mining the other side of this seam later this year in one of the world's largest gold deposits: 23 million ounces worth about $40 billion.
The Haitian government's annual budget is $1 billion, more than half provided by foreign assistance. The largest single source of foreign investment, $2 billion, came from Haitians working abroad last year. A windfall of locally produced wealth could pay for roads, schools, clean water and sewage systems for the nation's 10 million people, most of whom live on as little as $1.25 a day.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Haiti's Historic Iron Market Completely Renovated & Open For Business
GREAT NEWS!
I visited the Iron Market in Port-au-Prince last May, 2010, when it was still a crippled wreck, hoping that it would somehow be rebuilt, and indeed that miracle has happened, and here it stands, just reopened on the eve of the first anniversary of the great Earthquake of January 12, 2010:
This is a testament to and metaphor for the dauntless, ebullient spirit and energy of the Haitian people, whose courage and resilience awe the onlooker. I captured a bit of this spirit in a music video I made last year about the Iron Market and the giant outdoor market district surrounding it. Here it is:
Now check out the following article on the historical celebration of the Iron Market's reopening, a key resurrection moment for the New Haiti:
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