Haitian Wesly Guiteau — a Bermuda-based broker at Willis — is back in his home country helping with relief efforts after the huge earthquake that hit the Caribbean country last week.

Here are his latest dispatches from his home city of Lascahobas to family, friends and colleagues here.

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From: Wesly Guiteau

Sent: Tuesday, January 19

Great news today. I just got back from the war zone (Port-au-Prince) and evacuated my aunt and brother safe and sound to Lascahobas.

I also got an added bonus by evacuating my aunt's cousin — "Sister Bonnet" — who is also a nun and she is a blind, fully alert 91-year-old.

Such a marvellous turn of events when I know that death, fear, suffering, anger and fatigue were my unwanted friends just 24 hours ago.

We also made four stops to four different refuge camps and donated all the sardines, sausages, water, toilet paper and other local goods from the people of Lascahobas.

We've estimated that a total 1,000 people received help today from our supplies and efforts in one way or another.

On our way to evacuate my aunts and brother we had to stop to save one life.

He was buried under debris for six hours. We took him to hospital and I think he is OK now.

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From: Wesly Guiteau

Sent: Wednesday, January 20

2.59 p.m. — I've just met with my friend, he is an engineer planning to help assess the buildings in Port-au-Prince (PAP) that will be marked for destruction. He's advised that my brother (a minister with responsibilities for the University of Theology) has about 5,000 people on his campus and they are running out of food and water.

We are therefore planning a second trip to PAP using some of the remaining products (mainly rice and bean).

Since we are low on available cash, we have collected hundreds of empty gallons from the locals and we are in the process of cleaning them so they can be filled with filtered water.

We are planning to leave for PAP in the next hour.

Tomorrow, my friend and I will be going back to DR to purchase more supplies. The Mayor's office has a growing list of refugees and we will be buying food for them, mostly more non-perishable items, such as canned food.

6.15 a.m. — we've just experienced another aftershock. This time it was felt all the way here in Lascahobas and I have no idea what happened in the capital.

It is now 6.30 a.m. and the entire city of Lascahobas is up... standing in the streets trying to avoid the worst.

More psychological fear than anything else. No damages reported here.