Natural Landscape helps to moderate the influence of the weather

Haiti, still suffering the effects of an earthquake and a cholera epedemic, is now faced with another major catastrophe, that of Hurricane Tomas.  It is common knowledge that most of Haiti's forest have been removed thereby offering little resistance to the effects of pounding rain and raging mountain rivers from storm water.  A major part of long term solutions to Haiti's problem lies in re-forestation. This should be aggressively pursued so as to help alleviate the disasterous effects which nature seems to be having on this country. There is a lesson for us here too in Trinidad and Tobago if we do not manage our forest reserves.