Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest countries in the Caribbean, thanks to its large reserves of oil and gas, the exploitation of which dominates its economy. Neither of which the DR nor Haiti have.

Personally I have been to Trinidad and your next door neighbor Barbados and both are doing one by virtue of the petroleum and the other by virtue of education but both are tiny countries that should not have as much problems as they do today.Remember Haiti is almost 10 times the size of Trinidad in population and it doesn't have all the natural resource that you do have and even with all that in mind the net migration of people leaving Trinidad is almost 3 times that of Haiti itself which speaks volumes as to why do people leave if they are living in the richest country in the Caribbean sea as you said.Who owns most of the refineries there and most the large business.

If it wasn't for the oil and gas, Trinidad would be in dire straights, with an uneficient and stale bureaucracy, corrupt government, and poor planning.

trust me that imbecile is dumb enough to admit that blacks run the economy. i know plenty of people from trinidad and seeing what you wrote brings flashbacks from the people that i have come across that reside in flatbush brooklyn. trust me they love trinidad but admit they are going nowhere. wow! must be the cuban version of the english speaking islands which =comemierda!

Trinidad is in dire straights. It's the murder capital of Carribean.

Belly:
Maybe I am.... what I take from this Loose Canon lunatic you posted is that blacks dont help blacks, including hatians dont help haitians bcs he didnt see any!! that is BS !!! just bcs Canon didnt see it nor did he didnt see any black ships in the harbor... and to be honest i didnt see any either but that doesnt mean they didnt help!!!

He continues to say that bcs whites were the only ones that came to the rescue, they should be forgiven for any past inhumane acts against blacks!!

and for the icing , he adds I hope this is not the last earthquake that hits a black country.

This type of reasoning and rationale is what I truly despise in a human being and eventhough I'd like to introduce his intestines to my Bowie blade , my affection to the human race would even stop me from doing so to this coward who hides behind the pseudo Loose Canon.

So please Belly, explain how i missed the point!

And if you can , ask Cannon what he thinks abotuu Dominicans, and I can practically guarnatee that you wont like his response!

The point he was trying to make is that in Africa most leaders blame everything that goes bad in government to the white man which I think is part to be blamed but most of the problem is caused by it's own people yet when something happens to a black country most of the help comes from what he calls white countries.I think is an interesting article because it brings up a good point that if black as a race wants more respect worldwide then it must start acting like it by helping each other. Haiti has been hit many times but not until now African countries came up to help yet most of the help has come from whites and 80% of voluntary workers in Haiti today are whites. I'm not saying that whites are superior but in times of need white have a record of showing up by larger margins and that's something everybody knows yet many are afraid to said it out loud because of political correctness.i.e. I have many friends both blacks and whites and Latinos and when the conversation of the quake in Haiti comes up I get to find that almost 90% of whites I know have donated , 70% of Latinos have donated and a barely 30% of blacks I know have donated. I'm not saying this should be the general view but in my own circle of friends I can see it daily.So the point of the article is white blame all the problems on white yet in times of disasters they show up to help black by much larger margins.

That's true. Barbados I would say is the better one of the two since it's standards of living are good considering is a small country with very few options to survive but they putting their money on education. They are focus on educating their people to the point is hard to find a channel on TV that is not educating people one way or another.In the long run Barbados has a good future and the people who own most large business there are very honest i.e. the Evergreen Group there who owns most large business there is very committed to moving the country forward.

did i start my comments by saying every country will have rich and poor clown, the poor will always leave for the richer countries. there is something call GDP CHECK IT OUT IDIOT. AND I DID NOT SAY THAT BLACKS RUN THE ECONOMY I SAID THE COUNTRY IS RUN BY A BLACK GOVERNMENT LUNATIC. ANYWAY WE DO HAVE RACE PROBLEMS IN TRINIDAD BUT OVER THE YEARS WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY.

lets not compare countries, your country is no diffrent to mine. and stop saying if it was not for oil and gas we would have been a poor country. we have never developed our tourisim product and you been there as u claim and you can admit its a lovely country.