HAITIAN ACCOUNTANT RECALLS THE DAY THE EARTHQUAKE STRUCK HIS COUNTRY
April 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ON January 12, Haitian accountant Kenny Laforest, 32, was having a normal day in Port-au-Prince. He had just started driving home having left his office when the earthquake that devastated his country struck. Speaking to Accountancy Age from the Haitian capital, he recalled: "I had just finished working. I was driving in the street to go to my house. It was terrible. I thought it was a bomb.
"It was the first time I had seen something like that: there was a lot of noise and afterwards there was [clouds of] dirt, so I could not see ...
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