Outside the judicial police headquarters, the makeshift new home of the Haitian government, there are hundreds of demonstrators chanting that they want to see the President, Rene Preval.

Over and over they shout: "We have no water, we have no food and nowhere to stay."

The administration has been conspicuous by its absence since the quake on 12 January, and this is one of a number of protests that have brought Port-au-Prince to a standstill.

The people say that they are not getting any help from those they elected.

Aid for the earthquake victims is flowing into Haiti

Having lost thousands of civil servants and most of its buildings,Haiti's government admits it was overwhelmed trying to organise the disaster response between the UN, the international community and numerous aid agencies.

But with billions in aid coming into the country, the question of corruption is one it has had to address. The government says the lack of co-ordination over what is being spent where means the system is open to abuse.

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says: "The problem is I don't know who is receiving aid, what they are doing with it and where it goes, but it's important that the government knows, because we will be held accountable for it.

"They will say: 'We gave $3m or $4m to Haiti' and they don't know what we did with it, they will say the government stole it. They say that Haiti and the government is corrupt, but what did I get to steal? Nothing has been given to me."

The government wants Transparency International to look at all the assistance, and says it is not receiving any money, that the only funds being spent are by the relief agencies.

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