[QUOTE]Standing on Ralph Chevry's magnificent veranda, gazing over a sun-dappled Caribbean and listening to the delicate tinkle of a swimming pool being filled in the nearby courtyard, it's easy to forget where you are. Yesterday, a 69-year-old woman was pulled alive from Haiti's rubble, 10 days after the earthquake. Such dramas seem a million miles from this affluent scene.
Mr Chevry is one of Haiti's best-known entrepreneurs. His business interests include a waste-disposal company He lives in Montaigne Noir, a beautiful, moneyed neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, and holidays in New York, Miami, and Paris. His daughter attends university in Strasbourg.
Disaster is supposed to be a great leveller, but although Haiti has lost several of its most influential personalities, including its Catholic archbishop, the Chevrys and their peers have endured only a fraction of the discomforts of their fellow countrymen. The family's large, well-built house was undamaged by the quake. It never lost its electricity supply thanks to a generator, and internet access continued virtually uninterrupted, via satellite.
To an outsider, the existence of this ghetto of prosperity in suburban Port-au-Prince may come as a shock, since Haiti is constantly portrayed as a wealth-free zone. In recent days, report after report has portrayed it as an economic basket case, with a comically ineffective government. Most foreign media would have you believe that the country will forever be dependent on foreign aid.
But Mr Chevry and his affluent neighbours beg to differ. They say they are living proof that, behind the stereotypes, Haiti is brimming with potential. [b]The nation's small but determined elite will be central to its reconstruction.[/b]
[/QUOTE][URL]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/haitis-elite-offers-an-unlikely-source-of-hope-1876412.html[/URL]
The article with the thread title doesn't make any sense. What's this businessman have to do with giving Haiti hope?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;19815583]The article with the thread title doesn't make any sense. What's this businessman have to do with giving Haiti hope?[/QUOTE]
I think he might be giving away his wealth.
They see those rich guys rollin', they haitian.
[QUOTE=zombiefreak;19815619]I think he might be giving away his wealth.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't even imply that anywhere. What you posted just talks about how he's filthy rich and had no problem with the earthquake.
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[QUOTE]The nation's small but determined elite will be central to its reconstruction.[/QUOTE]
They mean they'll be central to controlling the country.
See, the thing with developing countries is that it's not so much that the countries are poor, but that there's a bigger gap between rich and poor. Sure, there's a big gap between rich and poor in the US and other developed countries, but it's nothing compared to what it's like in developing countries.
Breaking News: Country has rich and poor people after earthquake.
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[quote]Mr Chevry is one of Haiti's best-known entrepreneurs. [B]His business interests include a waste-disposal company[/B] He lives in Montaigne Noir, a beautiful, moneyed neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, and holidays in New York, Miami, and Paris. His daughter attends university in Strasbourg.[/quote]
He's gonna get rich(er)
[QUOTE=Kybalt;19816916][b]Breaking News[/b]: Country has rich and poor people after [b]earthquake[/b].[/QUOTE]
*snicker*
[QUOTE=pyrofiliac;19815625]They see those rich guys rollin', they haitian.[/QUOTE]
Your avatar fits well with your puns.
[QUOTE=zombiefreak;19815619]I think he might be giving away his wealth.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't say that, it implies that they will rebuild and profit - therefore stimulating their economy.
[QUOTE=pyrofiliac;19815625]They see those rich guys rollin', they haitian.[/QUOTE]
This is like that V-Tech meme that died and then something happened in the news that revived it
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