The media have been flooded with images of another devastating crisis in Haiti. And with that came the often-hollow sentiments of “thoughts and prayers” for the beleaguered people of this CARICOM nation.Last Saturday, while many of us were entering a weekend of relaxation or revelry, thousands of our brethren west of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, were trying to dig themselves out of a deadly earthquake that has reportedly killed more than 1 200 people.So powerful and shallow, the quake was felt in Jamaican where reports indicated the tremors lasted for a frighteningly-long 20 seconds.
