Let's Build Gonave, Haiti!

Image from CNN.com A terrorist gently walked into a church in Charleston, South Carolina and was welcomed with open arms by the church members.  As the church members did their prayer service, a white man named Dylann Roof waited one hour setting next to the black church members before getting up and shooting them. The terrorist act isn't new to what is going on in the black community.  This year headlines have circled the world talking about unarmed and usually innocent black men and women being killed in a hail of bullets from police.  Many of these police have emails and text that show their racist and militant views towards black people.  Often these police officers are not prosecuted and usually are on paid leave while going through the American Judicial System. Dylann Roof will also go through the same justice system.  The act of terror on the black community has many in that community angry that not more is done, and often white gunmen are looked...

I have attached a YouTube video from RECON-Digital.  They are an animation company from Nigeria, that has recently been on CNN due to their unique commercials that use animation. In Africa animation is a big thing that helps push products and services.  Could something like this be used on Gonave?  Possibly creating characters and shows that reflect on Haitian culture and life on Gonave?  Creating an animation studio isn't very expensive, and as you can see in the video below, the quality is decent. The below video is a spoof on the American Idol, and is titled Africa's Top Poet. Go Gonave!

Turning Gonave into a Free Trade Zone To move the economy of Gonave as one single unit is to make Gonave a Free Trade Zone, which is the same as an Export Trade Zone, will bring in many different companies to the island.  Having a FTZ is nothing new, and it builds an economy.  Instead of having just a few zones which are usually around seaports, international airports, or on international borders, I propose turning the entire island of Gonave into a FTZ. The entire island of Mauritius in Africa is also a FTZ.  This has boosted this tiny island of only 787 square miles of having a GDP of $10.49 billion as of 2012, according to the World Bank.  The much larger Madagascar in Africa, which is at 226,597 square miles, which the entire isn't isn't a FTZ has a GDP of $9.975 billion as of 2012 according to the World Bank.  So not only does Madagascar have much more land, and over 20 million people compared to Mauritius which has just over 1 million people, Maurit...