Good Evening,
No doubt by now you would have heard of the hideous catastrophe that has happened in Haiti, formerly the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
And that is saying something…
Just after 9pm London time last night, a tremor measuring some 7.0 on the Richter scale struck some 10 miles south-west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
It is a country which has been ravaged by war and poverty for most of its history – and therefore it’s infrastructure is next to non-existent – so much so that according to reports out there, the Parliament and Tax Office in the capital are amongst the buildings which have collapsed.
Even the Presidential Palace has been pretty much reduced to rubble.
"There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them."
Those are the words of the Haitian President.
Have they suffered the ultimate insult, the wiping out of an entire generation in one unforgiving moment.
Let them be in your thoughts this evening.
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