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I suggested on this blog back in January that Haiti might be better off as the 51st state of the USA as it tried to recover from the devastating effects of the earthquake.

Now Peter Beaumont reports in that "a survey of more than 1,700 Haitians released last week by Oxfam ... revealed that fewer than 7% wanted their government to manage reconstruction on its own, though nearly 25% thought that it could work together with the local authorities and community organisations. Nearly 40% wanted control to fall to a foreign government."

Perhaps we should try not to forget, as we Europeans worry about our cancelled flights following the Icelandic volcano eruption, that some natural disasters do a lot more than cause inconvenience to travellers. More than 200,000 people lost their lives in the Haiti quake, and many thousands more are still living with the consequences.

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