These projects are very much dependent on being able to sound out the prime minister and the bureaucracy what is needed and what type of creative financing it could bring in.

not wasted on government bureaucracy or frivolous projects.

When you have countries in the headlines with people in the streets, then investors and their boards of directors have to think twice.

He has been a friend of The Bridge for a long time and he has helped us with projects before many years ago and you know the Olympics were just over with and we're doing the whole silver, bronze, gold thing and his story is just Olympic size and very inspirational.

What we need to see are concrete measures aimed at getting the bureaucracy to pursue this objective, otherwise all this will be just more rhetoric.

While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native city and personally delivered water and food to survivors.