Thursday, President Michel Martelly, accompanied by the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, at the head of an important delegation composed among others of Marie Carmelle Jean Marie, Minister of Economy and Finance, Réginald Delva, Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities, Jean François Thomas, Minister of the Environment, Jean Renel Sanon, Minister of Justice and Public Security, went to Cap-Haitien in order to assess the damage caused by recent rains that fell on the North. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-12442-haiti-weather-the-country-in-state-of-emergency.html

The visit was an opportunity for the Head of State to distribute basic necessity products to the victims, to the National School of Fort St Michel who also serves as temporary shelter in the circumstances.

Hygiene kits are already available at the Departmental Emergency Operations Center, ready to be distributed to victims. 34 million gourdes were released by the government to assist the more than 7,000 victims in 37 temporary shelters of Cap-Haitien.

The programme of social assistance "Ede Pèp" has distributed in emergency to the population affected by floods, thousands of food kits and over 30,000 hot meals program via "Kantin Mobil" including in quartier Morin, Limonade and Cap-Haitien. For its part, the Ministry of Defence has deployed two units of the Corps of Military Engineering of Haiti and a Medicine Health Unit in the north of country in order to bring relief to people severely affected by floods.

President Martelly, intervened along with the Head of Government, on Radio Venus in Cap Haitien, has promised to give an immediate response to this situation, affecting the country's second city since the beginning of the week.

To date of this morning, 14 of 19 shelters are closed inform the DPC. 5,400 people have returned to their home with a hygiene kit and dry ration. The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has mobilized 400,000 gourdes for the cleaning of drains and sanitation of various roads in Port-de-Paix.

Recall that Haiti has insurance coverage, with the "Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility" (CCRIF) for the period 1 June 2014 to 31 May 2015, comprising this year a component for the risk of excess precipitation. Haiti benefit from this protection, thanks to a subsidy of the annual insurance premium of 2.57 million to Haiti (for the 2nd year) by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). Let's hope that this insurance applies in the circumstances.

Learn more about the CCRIF :

CCRIF, the world’s first regional insurance fund, is a parametric insurance facility, owned, operated and registered in the Caribbean for governments in the region. It is designed to limit the financial impact of catastrophic hurricanes and earthquakes to Caribbean governments by quickly providing short-term liquidity when a policy is triggered. CCRIF was developed through funding from the Japanese government, and was capitalized through contributions to a multi-donor trust fund by the government of Canada, the European Union, the World Bank, the governments of the United Kingdom and France, CDB and the governments of Ireland and Bermuda, as well as through membership fees paid by participating governments. Last August, the CCRIF has created an excess rainfall insurance package for 2014-2015.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-12442-haiti-weather-the-country-in-state-of-emergency.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-12432-haiti-weather-floods-lot-of-damage-multiple-victims.html

HL/ HaitiLibre