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...

The design and build of La Gonave's honeybee nuc hive boxes will be done by Hurko Co.  The company will manufacture the nuc boxes in America, but could potentially build the boxes in Haiti, hiring Haitians.  The number of nuc boxes has not been determined due to a current fodder assessment that is on-going on the island of La Gonave. I will have more about this as we work out more details. Go Gonave!

A company in California called CAI builds several different variations of power plants that are affordable and come as a complete package.  The company can build from 1 to 10 MW power plants.  Currently we are in talks with the company to understand their application and how it can work on Gonave. While these plants are not using renewable energy, they do use natural gas.  So these plants would need to have a constant supply of natural gas to keep operating. The Spirit 1 seen above from cai3.com can power about 1,000 American homes.  Given that citizens in Canada and America use more power than anyone else on the plant, this power plant can provide a large amount of power to a good segment to Gonave.  The plant would mostly work to power light manufacturing.  Due to back up, two of these plants would be purchased so that there would be no power interruptions.  CAI also makes renewable energy plants as well.  Funding for this system could ...

  Miami!  While Gonave has dirt runway that can only accommodate very small planes, the new Gonave will have a modern runway.  Based on many international destinations, a 2 mile runway is typical in order for an airport to handle very large passenger and cargo planes. So what American City should be on Gonave's short list of Gateway cities?  Without question this should be Miami for many reasons.  Like New York City, Miami has many Haitian nationals and many people of Haitian decent.  So air traffic to Gonave could easily be established due to this, especially if better infrastructure to Haiti were to happen. The close proximity to Haiti/Gonave makes Miami also very attractive as well.  Smaller aircraft can be flown in initially until service levels prove for larger craft.  Also an entrepreneur on Gonave or Haiti could start a small feeder airline that connects Miami to Gonave. Miami is an international city.  With flights...

So I have been working on this blog about Gonave since September.  Some of my readers are from Russia, Germany, Haiti, all points in between, and most are from America. I have to say I'm very flattered and I appreciate it!  I feel that Gonave and Haiti need the world wide attention and it is very important to me.  It is a cause I have adopted and I consider it my Passion Project. About 1,752 views have taken place since September with a little over 50% of that occurring in December alone.  Below is a chart I wanted to share with you as far as the percentages of viewers over the past four months and how 2013 ended.  Here is to a new year and lets continue to support Haiti and Gonave.   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...