La Gonave

Here is a picture of La Gonave.

The former President Michel Martelly had made a plan with an unknown institution to transform the La Gonâve Island into an International Financial Center with three official languages: English, French and Creole. As per the plan, an area of 100 square kilometers within the 743 square kilometer Island of Gonâve will be transformed into a sustainable green island community consisting the following projects. (a) renewable energy project, Jatropha farm and biodiesel plant that would employ over 18,000 Haitians; (b) luxury estate housing; (c) waterfront villages; (d) international and private airports; (e) industrial city with deep sea port; (f) all inclusive destination resorts with spas, golf courses and casinos; and (g) home port for large cruise ships. The agreement withholding the description of financial institution was made public by an Executive order issued by the Martelly government on January 7, 2016. The private entity will be empowered to build necessary infrastructure as per the requirement of the project and collect revenue to cover their investment. The plan was originally conceptualized in September 2010. It was a surprising fact that a public disclosure of such status was unknown outside of the principles involved.

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Gonâve Island or Île de la Gonâve (in French) is the largest of the Hispaniolan satellite islands of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. This barren island is mostly made up of limestone; it is 60 km long and 15 km wide, covers an area of 743 square km. After the earthquake, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) had pledged to grant more than $2.2 billion in the next 10 years to fund Haiti's recovery efforts and cancelled all of its outstanding debt. Recently, under "Gouvènman an lakay ou" or 'Government Home Building Program', the IDB has approved the government's request to fund the construction of two schools accommodating 820 students and a project to build 30 km long road linking Pointe-à-Raquette and Anse-à-Galet. On last Friday, 6 October, 2014, on the instruction of the Prime Minister Lamothe several important ministers and officials visited Gonâve to form a monitoring committee for the ensuing project.

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Pointe-à-Raquette, site of a recent government meeting, can be found in the Ouest Department of Haiti in the La Gonâve Arrondissement. The municipality, whose name in Creole is Pwentarakèt, is one of the island of La Gonave's two towns. At last count, the population in the municipality totaled just over 22,000, with just about a thousand more men than women. This number amounts to just less than 30% of the population on the island. Those within the town number just under 4,000.

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Anse-a-Galets Island is a metro area under the La Gonave Arrondissement. The biggest city on Haiti in the Ouest Department, it numbers 52,662 residents, and sits west-northwest of Port-au-Prince, part of the Gulf of Gonave. It operates the Anse-a-Galets Airport in La Gonave, running charter flights from Port-au-Prince and contains an unpaved airstrip that is 2,400 feet in length.

Anse-a-Galets cholera clinic serves between one to three patients per day, most of whom have had non-life-threatening symptoms.

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Sidling away from the practices of the past, the tourism industry wishes to turn La Gonave from an island of undesirables, to the Caribbean's paradise, with a $48 billion budget to do it. While La Gonave's Australian-like transformation has been widely talked of, no concrete plans have been formed and the island and its inhabitants continue to struggle with issues of water scarcity, the continued disenfranchisement of its citizens and recovering, like the rest of Haiti, from the 2010 earthquake, the epicenter of which the island was close to.

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120,000 of Haiti's residents live on a small island off the coast of the capital called La Gonave. Only ten by thirty miles, the island is accessible by a 40 minute boat ride from Port-au-Prince. Its detachment from the mainland made it a propitious place years ago for Haiti to send those viewed as 'undesirable'. The list of those banished there included criminals, the old and the sick.

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La Gonave, the largest of the satellite islands of Hispaniola, includes the Pointe-à-Raquette and Anse-à-Galets communes, and resides in the Ouest Department. It is a hilly, rocky island that receives up to 1,600 mm of rainfall yearly. In its past, La Gonave was a pirate base, and was later the place where criminals and other undesirables were sent. From the census a decade before, the population was estimated to be over 75,000.

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There has been a Boat accident neat la Gonave, Haiti. The report indicated that there has been at least five people dead in that accident. in May, 2008, at least 11 Haitians died after a passenger ferry capsized in Haiti.

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