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FiftyFive ~ # 35
The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following the devastating earthquake last month. Wouldn't you Adam and Eve it (thank you Paul Klee - picture aside) - Canada's finance minister announced at a summit in Iqaluit, northern Canada, that the G7 countries planned to cancel Haiti's bilateral debts. Jim Flaherty said he would encourage international lenders to do the same. Some $1.2bn (£800m) of Haiti's debts to countries and international lending bodies has already been cancelled. Am I pleased? of course I am but the tragedy would have been so much less of a disaster if this had happened before the earthquake, for the poverty and poorly constructed buildings from poor materials meant that people dies just from being poor. And some were dying already and the mortality rate was grim before the earthquake but the question remains, will this allow them to start again? Start afresh with hope and a real chance, or will it all slip and slide in the mud that is international politics and aid for the poor. I really don't know but I hope I continue to care. We are big Steve Earle fans and I like this song very much, its about NYC and who can blame them:
The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following the devastating earthquake last month. Wouldn't you Adam and Eve it (thank you Paul Klee - picture aside) - Canada's finance minister announced at a summit in Iqaluit, northern Canada, that the G7 countries planned to cancel Haiti's bilateral debts. Jim Flaherty said he would encourage international lenders to do the same. Some $1.2bn (£800m) of Haiti's debts to countries and international lending bodies has already been cancelled. Am I pleased? of course I am but the tragedy would have been so much less of a disaster if this had happened before the earthquake, for the poverty and poorly constructed buildings from poor materials meant that people dies just from being poor. And some were dying already and the mortality rate was grim before the earthquake but the question remains, will this allow them to start again? Start afresh with hope and a real chance, or will it all slip and slide in the mud that is international politics and aid for the poor. I really don't know but I hope I continue to care. We are big Steve Earle fans and I like this song very much, its about NYC and who can blame them: 
