Pointe-à-Raquette

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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