Haiti won't get to sell La Gonave after all!

Not long ago, the now ex-President Michel Martelly signed a decree that allowed the island of La Gonave to be entered into a long term land lease. The company, which was foreign, would have been able to own all things on the island (movable and immovable), and would have setup accounts to a foreign bank for a tax haven. In return, the company claimed it would build up the island and provide jobs, housing, education, etc for the island's people. Most local Haitians on the island felt that this would not happen and they would get the short end of the stick. In fact we stopped working on the island when we found out the decree was signed. Anything that we would have put on the island would be owned by this company. So why invest in something just to have it tied up in legal battles and even possibly loosing your investment.? What stopped the process at the time of the decree was that Haiti didn't have a full Parliament so they couldn't vote on it. Without a vote, the decree wouldn't be valid. Just this year the Haitian Parliament voted down the decree. This halts the entire project that would have left the island in an uncertain future. The company that proposed the project didn't have the funds to build the island up, and were relying on foreign investors to sell parts of the land off to them, or have them pay to develop a plot of land. Meanwhile Haiti and locals Haitians would not have benefited from this. Sure there maybe immediate jobs, but those jobs wouldn't have a guarantee. The company would have been the judge and jury in many cases and would have had its own police force/security team. The Haitian Parliament did the right thing by voting this down. The island DOES need development, but not just anything will do! Go Gonave!