Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite - Haiti Observer Blog

A large-scale infrastructure project has been nearly completed in the town of Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite (PRA). A corps of 30 military engineers, trained by the Ecuadorian government, was praised by Prime Minister (PM) Lamothe ". . . for the work you are carrying out in this community . . ."

The corps of engineers (COE) built three sections of road and other parts of PRA that encompassed Louverture Street, La Crete Pierrot Fort, and an in-progress clean drinking water project. The COE have also participated in combating the Chikungunya epidemic.

The government of Haiti (GOH) has partnered with Ecuador to implement these projects within the parameters of GOH's curtailed budget. The message GOH is sending to the world, according to PM Lamothe, is the importance of funding COE correlates with Haiti's ability to assert its economic self-rule, and put in place a security infrastructure that will respond to foreign incursions upon its soil.

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