Haiti's President says progress is being made!

The Miami Herald reported that Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive "insisted this week that progress is being made in his devastated homeland despite the trickle of international aid."

Bellerive spoke at the closing of the Americas Conference, an annual event sponsored by the Miami Herald and the World Bank. Bellerive said "millions are being spent on new highways, students are back in school, a new multimillion dollar teaching hospital is under construction, and thousands of new apartments are coming on line. We've only had 240 days, And what we have accomplished in those brief 240 days is, under the circumstances, remarkable when weighed against the challenges.'' The Herald also reported that "only 18 percent of the $5.3 billion pledged by international donors has been disbursed so far.
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In a separate interview Pamela Cox, the World Bank's vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean, called post-earthquake Haiti "one of the worst situations that the world has faced" and said, " coordinating the efforts of so many disparate aid bodies was in itself challenging."