Video: Haitian President wants security money channelled to jobs, investment

Haitian President Michel Martelly (left) with Caricom SG Irwin La Rocque

Haitian President Michel Martelly feels that the focus and amount of money being spent by the United Nations on security for his country should be shifted instead to job creation, infrastructural development and investment opportunities.

“Security yes but the real insecurity will prevail when you have people who are looking for jobs, people who are looking for food, people who are looking to be free because poverty is your problem…contrary to what is being said Haiti is not insecure…we need to think more about sustainable development than security”, he asserted.

He was at the time speaking at  a press conference hosted by the