Welcome `home,' Michaëlle Jean

Welcome `home,' Michaëlle Jean
May 13, 2006. 01:00 AM
Toronto Star


"The Governor General will drop by the seaside town of Jacmel next week during her visit to Haiti. She wasn't born there, never lived there, but residents claim her as their own, Francine Kopun writes

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Nicolas Greffin, the town's soft-spoken mayor, says he never thought he'd be called upon to officiate at such a momentous occasion.

"For us, she's Jacmellian. She's coming home," he said.

He expects close to the entire population of 40,000 to turn out.

Jacmel, a 15-minute flight from the capital of Port-au-Prince, or a two-to-three-hour drive through choking traffic and over country roads wrecked by flooding, is the only stop outside of Port-au-Prince that Jean will make during her four-day visit to Haiti.

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brighten the day for those who come out to great her. That poor benighted country has so little reason to smile...

ones making the news and leading the world. Haiti is not much different than the USA in that regard ... these days at least... is it?

form of policing for those people. Water is owned by gangs in the poor neighbourhoods.