Bahamas: The Easy Way Out?  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

Bahamian Nicolette Bethel takes issue with the alleged statements of her Prime Minister when it comes to helping Haiti: “The message that [he] is sending is that it is all right to allow practical impediments get in the way of help. It is OK to let the fact that it’s difficult…to get planes and boats into Haiti stop us from giving whatever we can.”  Fellow blogger Womanish Words, meanwhile, pens a poem for the survivors.