Nonsense.......there are plenty of english speaking countries where we could spread these 12000 around......they simply need to not all focus on USA and Canada.
In the long run Haiti will simply have to increase the number of higher education facilities.
If that was the case and those same Haitian families could send them to the places you have yet to list would accept them as resident students for their entire careers + paying the same as local residents, I think they would have been already there. No?
Haiti needs higher education facilities, that's true. But given it can't even run properly with a basic budget the ones it already has operating, what gives you the idea that this would change anytime soon?
Besides those going to DR are not the best and brightest...
The best and brightest they can't be all, since the ones coming to the DR are doing so because their families can pay the financial burden, not based on academic achievements or brightness! But, even George nukulear Bush got an education enough to allow him to be the POTUS!
most would better learn a trade and keep the money in Haiti.
The problem for many of these young folks is that they graduate in the DR, then there's nothing waiting for them back home for careers. A lot stay and make their lives in the DR and the rest use their minty diplomas to gain access to Canada's and France's job sectors they need people for. About 6 in 10 Haitian ladies that take the medical field in the DR, carry on to become RN's in the U.S. and Canada directly from Haiti. Half of those continue their equivalency studies and advanced their original careers as Doctors there. In Canada, the gov pays for their education in parts where French speaking family doctors and practitioners are scarce. The DR is only a stepping stone for a lot of these Haitian students.
As for others investing...as long as there is a demand and people willing to pay.....haiti's private sector or foreigners will invest.
The private sector is moot in Haiti and development. Foreign investors arrive with high hopes and dreams, willing to work hard to make Haiti a good place. The majority is bogged down by the gov's corruption and lack of security in the way titles, contracts and other legal important stuff is handled politically and not by the justice system.
Dominicans have flourished in large endeavors in Haiti because they too are mired by corruption and understand the greasing of elbows and political angle of biz at large.
Haiti needs to use its membership in the african union for joint project with countries such as South Africa and others.
It can use it, but half a world away won't get that many willing partners to take the trip of chance. Haiti has an image problem, even to their African friends.
Lifetime or not.....change comes with pain........one thing is sure...haiti will not advance tied up to DR.
Actually, if Haiti had been "tied-up" to the DR, it would have been in much better shape today. Maybe in better shape than DR.
For Haiti to achieve great steps in mere months, all it has to do is adopt the DR's legal, political, economic and judicial system, including the constitution. Just replacing DR with Haiti here and there, plus some other minor changes to reflect realities now impossible to dismiss in Haiti, Haiti would jump about 40 years ahead of its present time.
Drop French as second language at schools, replacing it with English since elementary all they up to college. Let the population enrich itself with the language everyone born and living there speaks: Haitian Kreyol. Let French be selective in HS and then on.
Since it adopts the DR political system, the President elected is the person in charge until the next election. Saves the noon-ending rite of chairs common to Haiti till now. Extend the elections to be every 6 years from the actual 4.
Only those little steps would catapult Haiti into modernity. From there it can work it out little by little.
