Haitians' ire over carnival spending amid hurricane's ruins

AFP ^ | February 27, 2017 | Amelie Baron

[C19fan]

Starjuin Regent is still waiting for Haitian government aid to help him rebuild his fishing business, which was destroyed last year by Hurricane Matthew.

In the nearly five months since the massive category five storm hit, residents are still struggling to rebuild shattered homes and businesses.

All the more reason then, for the ire of Regent and many others over millions of dollars spent by officials on upcoming carnival festivities in his hometown of Les Cayes.

[C19fan]

There seems to be a negative correlation between development and how big Carnival is. Although Catholic parts of Germany have Carnival festivals.

[ml/nj]

Bill and Hillary will be there any minute now.

ML/NJ

[PGR88]

Starjuin Regent is still waiting for Haitian government aid to help him rebuild his fishing business,

this sums up why Haiti has always been a poor, corrupt mess, and always will be a poor, corrupt mess

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Stop waiting for the government and rebuild your own business.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Waiting for the Haitian government to help your business will require a long wait. A very long wait.

[Moltke]

Although Catholic parts of Germany have Carnival festivals.

But those are not financed by the gov't/taxpayer (other than providing some necessary infrastructure support, of course - blocking roads for the processions, removing the dead bodies of muzzie attacks, etc. That sort of thing. All very benign :-)).