Haitian Prime Minister demands fund control

Haiti: The Haitian Government should increase its control over the funds for the national reconstruction, now in hands of the international donor organizations, said Haitian Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive here Tuesday.

Bellerive said that the limited role of the national administration on the foreign financial help blocks the national reconstruction works.

“I don’t have anything against organizations, but we need to know what they are doing in our country, where, with whom, and at what kind of cost,” Bellerive said in an interview to British news agency BBC published by the local press Tuesday.

At almost a year after the earthquake causing more than 230,000 dead people and 1.3 million damaged in January, the financial help promised to the Haitian government for the first year has only reached 20 percent.

The limited participation of the Government in handling the funds has provoked criticism on its capacity and transparency.

This has also been affected by a cholera epidemic affecting Haiti for two months now.

Over 2,700 dead people dead and 128, 251 infected are the damages reported so far by the health emergency, which containment is hampered by lack of personnel and medical supplies.

The existence of large amount of debris resulting from the earthquake and the lack of treatment system and sewage water also hinder efforts to curb the epidemic. Port-au-Prince, Prensa Latina