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It was ong>theong> second time that Jean-Baptiste had tried to make it into Turks and Caicos,where he hoped to ong>findong> work as a plumber. He doesn't rule out trying again.''The way it works here, you cannot work for a certain rate,'' he says. ``If you ong>findong>something but don't do it, someone else will jump at ong>theong> chance. That is why ong>theong> minuteyou ong>findong> something, you have to jump at ong>theong> chance.''Some, however, don't get that luxury. They go months and even years without workdespite ong>theong>ir skills, says Vilsaint Dorvilien, 31, noting that many of ong>theong> men aboard ong>theong>boat were laborers seeking jobs in Turks and Caicos' building boom.Dorvilien, who can barely afford ong>theong> one-room shack he shares with five oong>theong>rs,including his wife and two children, says he sold two goats and borrowed ong>theong> rest of ong>theong>money he needed from his faong>theong>r and broong>theong>r to make ong>theong> ill-fated trip. He says he paid$333.''You wake up each day looking at ong>theong> telephone, hoping someone will call, or you gofrom job to job hoping to ong>findong> something,'' Dorvilien says, describing his daily routine.``I'm sitting here now, not doing anything. I want to work.''6. Haiti Studies Creation of Security ForceBy STEVENSON JACOBSAssociated PressJune 21, 2007Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.latimes.com/ong>newsong>/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-haiti-securityforce,1,7036940.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlinesPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haiti is considering ong>theong> creation of a security force to oneday replace U.N. peacekeepers sent three years ago to stabilize ong>theong> troubled country.A special commission named by President Rene Preval will decide wheong>theong>r such a forceshould take ong>theong> form of a reconstituted military or act as a supporting unit of Haiti'soutgunned police, said Sen. Yuri Latortue, president of ong>theong> Senate commission on justiceand security, on Thursday.Preval is expected to appoint ong>theong> commission next week and ong>theong> commission's reportwould be due eight months later, Latortue said.An 8,800-member U.N. force provides ong>theong> only real security in ong>theong> impoverishedCaribbean nation, which is still recovering from a violent uprising that toppled formerPresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004.Latortue, ong>theong> nephew and former security chief of ex-interim Prime Minister GerardLatortue, said his Senate colleagues support creating a new military force.

"We can't provide our own security yet. But once ong>theong> U.N. soldiers leave, ong>theong> country willneed a military force to keep ong>theong> peace and protect our borders," Latortue, a formerofficer in ong>theong> Haitian armed forces, told The Associated Press in an interview.Preval has said he prefers creating a police force similar to that of France's national policeover reinstating ong>theong> military, which orchestrated several coups throughout Haiti's history.Aristide dismantled ong>theong> military in 1995, after a U.S. military intervention restored him topower following ong>theong> 1991 coup that first ousted him.7. Haiti trip gives altered imageOfficials from Miami-Dade County visited Haiti on a goodwill mission, ong>findong>ing bothprogress and challenges.By JACQUELINE CHARLESMiami HeraldJuly 7, 2007http://www.miamiherald.com/582/story/163182.htmlPORT-AU-PRINCE -- Miami City Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones stillremembers ong>theong> cautions she received when she told relatives and friends that she washeaded to Haiti. Don't go, ong>theong>y said. The place is steeped in problems.But after two days here, Spence-Jones and 12 oong>theong>r elected officials representing ong>theong>Florida Legislature, Miami-Dade County and five of its municipalities -- Miami, NorthMiami, North Miami Beach, Miami Gardens and El Portal -- are ong>findong>ing something fardifferent.''It's nothing like what people say it is,'' Spence-Jones said, between meetings withHaitian President René Préval and U.S. Ambassador Janet Sanderson. ``I am glad I came.I can see for myself. We have to begin to change ong>theong> image.''After months of facing violence from armed gangs and an unprecedented spree of forransomkidnappings, Haitian government officials have returned a measure of security toong>theong> capital. But much remains to be done.''We cannot accomplish everything at ong>theong> same time,'' Préval said. ``Today, I am happy tohear people are discussing oong>theong>r problems besides crime and kidnapping. They arediscussing ong>theong> problem of ong>theong> [exchange rate]. They are discussing privatization. They arediscussing energy.OTHER PROBLEMS``They are discussing all of ong>theong> problems that truly remain as problems. But it is a goodsign ong>theong>y can discuss all of ong>theong> matters besides kidnapping and insecurity.''

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