Mr. Karl Jean-Louis, Director General of Investment Facilitation Center (CFI) is positive on the investments in Haiti, explaining that for the first 5 months of the year, the number of submitted projects is more important than last year "We have $90 million confirmed and we have nearly 290 million dollars which are in study..."

"[...] If I look at the number of projects that we have received since January this year, it is more than last year. We have $90 million confirmed and we have nearly 290 million dollars which are in study in the Interministerial Commission, which will allow us to create nearly 50,000 jobs. For me it is an indicator that shows there is a trust that was created, there is interest locally and that people want to invest [...]

...it takes time when a investor has an interest, it must do explorations, understand the system, conduct studies... so we had many promises from the forum that we held last November and I can confirm hat this summer we will have Sherwin-Williams, Williams and dickies... and two other firms who have already come to Caracol and who said they were interested in investing in Haiti.

At CFI, we took a series of measures to support local investors. We have signed MoUs with the Chambers of Commerce [...] it is with them, that we must move forward, for they, mobilizing local investors and pose systemic structural problems, that there is in the system to accompany them.

At the level of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti (CCIH) we launched a national dialogue on investment. We were in Hinche, very soon we will be in Cap Haitien and we'll go around, to have the same reading of the situation. Currently, the level of CFI, we organize sectoral tables, where we listen sectors to understand the problems they have at the level of the question of investment... [...]"

S/ HaïitiLibre