Banking Official Chosen for Haiti Post

According to Haitian radio, President Rene Preval has picked an international banking official to be the troubled country's next prime minister. Inter-American Development Bank senior official Ericq Pierre will succeed ousted Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis. The appointment of Pierre as the country's no. 2 politician must be approved by Haiti's Parliament though. It was not immediately know when lawmakers would take up the nomination. During riots over food shortages, at least seven people died earlier this month and this is what cost Alexis his job. Haitian lawmakers fired the prime minister for failing to boost food production.