Reports: President of Haiti Assassinated at Home

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Haiti: Kenyan Police Bring Hope to People of Haiti | Security Council Briefing | United Nations​

Jul 4, 2024
Briefing by Ms. María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), on the question concerning Haiti - Security Council, 9679th meeting

 

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Haiti: Kenyan Police Bring Hope to People of Haiti | Security Council Briefing | United Nations​

Jul 4, 2024
Briefing by Ms. María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), on the question concerning Haiti - Security Council, 9679th meeting

 

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July 17, 2024

Haiti's prime minister orders gangs to drop weapons and promises to take back control of the capital

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has ordered gangs to surrender their weapons and acknowledged how dangerous life in Haiti’s capital and beyond has become.

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*Said this the past year, as we posted about the multiple attempts at arbitration made by the EPG of Caricom

CARICOM did not ‘sell out’ Haiti; Eminent Persons Group remains on standby – Dr Ali​

Monday, 29 July 2024

Outgoing CARICOM Chairman, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali addressing the opening of the 47th CARICOM Summit.
Outgoing CARICOM Chairman, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on Sunday said the regional grouping did not sell out Haitians in easing tension and improving governance in that troubled Caribbean nation.
“I want the people of Haiti to know: Never, ever reduce the role CARICOM played in this situation. Never be led to believe that we were in any pockets. The only pocket that we were in were the pockets of the people, for the love of the people, the freedom of the people and the return of normalcy to Haiti,” he said at the opening of the 47th regular summit of CARICOM leaders in Grenada.
Sections of the Haitian community as well as a number of other activists at home and abroad had accused CARICOM of taking instructions from western nations to derail the will of Haitian people in finding home-grown solutions. However, CARICOM had always maintained that those were Haitian-led.
The Guyanese President said CARICOM played a major role that was “hard work, sustained work” by the regional bloc that does not deserve news headlines.
In urging Haiti to place a high value on CARICOM’s role in addressing its problems, he announced that the Eminent Persons Group was on standby to continue assisting that French Creole-speaking nation where efforts were underway to crush heavily armed gangs and prepare the country for long-delayed elections. “We are prepared to support Haiti with this group continuing its work alongside you in support of you; not to lead…The Eminent Persons Group remains a mechanism to help and support you on this journey to democracy and good governance,” he said.
The Guyanese leader credited the Eminent Persons Group – former prime ministers of The Bahamas, Jamaica and St Lucia, and Elizabeth Solomon, former CARICOM Assistant Secretary General for Foreign and Community Relations – with working “relentlessly” to resolve Haiti’s political crisis.
Earlier this year, it had appeared that then Prime Minister Ariel Henry was reluctant to give up power, even as armed gangs had threatened to kill him if he had returned to Haiti from an official visit to Kenya to sign off on a United Nations-backed security stabilisation mission for his country.
Against that background, Dr Ali thanked Dr Henry “because he was part of the process of resigning” along with his administration.

 

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How a bank bribery scandal rocking Haiti threatens U.S.-backed transition to elections

“The fact that people in the government embezzle all this money, and make the state lose money so that they can enrich themselves and their family is a crime against humanity.”

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Aug 12, 2024

The alleged shakedown unfolded over 30 minutes inside room 408 in Pétion-Ville’s Royal Oasis Hotel east of Port-au-Prince, where an elevator takes guests to a presidential suite and a rooftop overlooks a brightly colored mountainside shantytown.

There, on a sweltering May afternoon, three members of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council — tasked with lifting the country out of its deepening crisis and prepare for elections — met with the director of one of the country’s state-owned commercial banks and allegedly asked him to pay 100 million Haitian gourdes, about $758,000, if he wanted to keep his job.

When Raoul Pierre-Louis, chairman of the board of the National Bank of Credit, BNC, said he didn’t have that kind of cash, he says he was told by one of the council members, “You’re the president of a bank. Figure it out.” The council member, Louis Gérald Gilles, then invited himself and fellow council member Smith Augustin to dinner at Pierre-Louis’ house the following Saturday, where the pressure continued.

That was the version of events Pierre-Louis gave investigators last week as he appeared alongside his lawyer before the country’s Anti-Corruption Unit. Although there had been whispers about council members asking heads of government agencies for kickbacks to keep their jobs, the accusations became public last month when a letter Pierre-Louis wrote to Prime Minister Garry Conille on July 24 detailing the accusations and asking for beefed-up security for him and his family — was leaked.

Pierre-Louis wrote that Presidential Council members Gilles, Augustin and Emmanuel Vertilaire told him he would be replaced if he didn’t pay up. All three have vehemently denied asking for a bribe, rejected calls for their resignation and have accused Pierre-Louis of trying to tarnish their reputations. Gilles has said that the accusations are an attempt to destabilize the council, which has seven voting members and two observers sharing power with Conille.

On Thursday, Conille sent Pierre-Louis a letter informing him he was out of a job and that a commission will take charge of the bank until a new board of directors is named. Such commissions are usually reserved for banks that have been mismanaged, which the banker’s lawyer, Sonet Saint-Louis, insists has not been the case during Pierre-Louis’ four-year tenure. Saint-Louis says Pierre-Louis is protesting the decision

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How a bank bribery scandal rocking Haiti threatens U.S.-backed transition to elections

“The fact that people in the government embezzle all this money, and make the state lose money so that they can enrich themselves and their family is a crime against humanity.”

www.yahoo.com

Aug 12, 2024

*rrest of article in the link

This sht has been going since i was a jit. You would see government officials build literal million dollar mansions in a span of 4 months out of nowhere

my uncle who is an engineer got paid 200K cash to build a home for an official. Bad luck for him, he put that money in his mistresses name bc he aint want his wife to find out. Shorty tool the money, ran off and got married. Nikka suffered a massive stroke and never been the same since

 

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This sht has been going since i was a jit. You would see government officials build literal million dollar mansions in a span of 4 months out of nowhere

my uncle who is an engineer got paid 200K cash to build a home for an official. Bad luck for him, he put that money in his mistresses name bc he aint want his wife to find out. Shorty tool the money, ran off and got married. Nikka suffered a massive stroke and never been the same since

Do I ,, or ?

 

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This sht has been going since i was a jit. You would see government officials build literal million dollar mansions in a span of 4 months out of nowhere

my uncle who is an engineer got paid 200K cash to build a home for an official. Bad luck for him, he put that money in his mistresses name bc he aint want his wife to find out. Shorty tool the money, ran off and got married. Nikka suffered a massive stroke and never been the same since

These guys don't have any fear of repercussions.. people away from their homes and that demanding 750k

 

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Inmates escape from Haiti prison north of the capital in the third jail break in months​

August 16, 2024

Detainees have escaped from another prison in Haiti. The latest prison break occurred north of the capital in the city of St. Marc, where the local business community has been calling for police reinforcement for days against ruthless gangs making inroads into the city.

A notice informing the public of the prison break was issued by the local St. Marc police station. It asks the public to report to the police any suspicious persons resembling escaped detainees and said the local police “are mobilized to search for the escapees of” Friday.

Images of videos show detainees climbing over a wall and others walking through a street accompanied by armed gang members. There was also a cloud of black smoke billowing from the structure. It remains unclear how many prisoners escaped and whether the incident is the result of a gang attack or an internal security breach. An attempt to reach the spokesman for the Haiti National Police has so far been unsuccessful.

This is the third prison break in Haiti in five months. In early March, gangs raided the country’s two largest prisons, the National Penitentiary and the civil prison in Croix-des-Bouquets, leading to the escape of more than 4,000 detainees

Full article at the link

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article291116235.html

 

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Bloody escape at Saint-Marc prison​

17/08/2024

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Early Friday, August 16, 2024, following a mutiny in the Saint-Marc prison (Dept. of Artibonite), (90 km north of Port-au-Prince), which was reportedly triggered due to the deplorable conditions of detention, including starvation and health problems. 15 detainees were killed in an escape attempt and others injured, the number of which has not been specified according to prison officials. Only one police officer was injured in the foot according to Me Venson François, the Government Commissioner.


An undetermined number of detainees are on the run.
According to initial evidence and testimonies, the prisoners allegedly mutinied during the showers before 8:00 a.m., against the agents of the National Penitentiary Administration (APN) whom they disarmed before vandalizing and setting fire to, among other things, the administration offices, archives, the infirmary and the prison staff dormitory before to open cells with a sledgehammer and then loot the weapons and ammunition depot.
The police forces informed of the situation quickly intervened. For several hours gunshots were heard in the prison and outside where the police were in pursuit of the escapees, several of whom were armed.


Friday afternoon, Me Venson François confirmed that the situation was once again under the control of the police authorities, stressing that the prison, which housed approximately 505 inmates (according to the Prosecutor's Office of the Saint-Marc jurisdiction), had suffered significant damage.
The national police have not yet reacted publicly to this escape...

 

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https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2542

US sanctions former Haitian president over alleged drug trafficking​

Aug 19, 2024


The United States has imposed sanctions on Haiti’s former President Michel Joseph Martelly over alleged drug trafficking, accusing him of playing a significant role in perpetuating the continuing crisis in the country.
The US Department of the Treasury, in a statement on Tuesday, said Martelly “abused his influence to facilitate the trafficking of dangerous drugs, including cocaine, destined for the United States”.

The department said Martelly, who served as president of the Caribbean nation between 2011 and 2016, also worked with Haitian drug traffickers, sponsored multiple gangs and engaged in the laundering of illicit drug proceeds.


“Today’s action against Martelly emphasises the significant and destabilising role he and other corrupt political elites have played in perpetuating the ongoing crisis in Haiti,” Treasury Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Bradley Smith said in the statement.


“The United States, along with our international partners, is committed to disrupting those who facilitate the drug trafficking, corruption, and other illicit activities fueling the horrific gang violence and political instability.”


Tuesday’s action freezes any of Martelly’s US assets and generally bars Americans from dealing with him. It echoes similar moves from the Canadian government, which imposed sanctions in 2022 against Martelly and two other former prime ministers, accusing them of profiting from armed gangs

 

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. The international community has to come in and address what Haitian leadership has been unable to do, before our problem becomes their problem.
Haitian diaspora makes up the biggest number of inter-Caribbean migrants, and has for years. If the situation is left up to Haitian leaders, the violence will continue and will cause a bigger exodus of people fleeing to the other islands. Regular Haitians, and including the vagabon gang members and recently freed prisoners.
Other islands aren't equipped for the pending amount of people illegally trying to enter their countries. Not their responsibility and it would strain their resources.

Million Dollar Drug Bust - Royal Turks and Caicos Island Police

Officers of the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force over the weekend seized more than $2 million in Cannabis sativa (marijuana) following separate interceptions involving illegal migrants. On Friday, 16th August 2024, at approximately 11:40 pm, a team of officers responded to a report of...

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August 19, 2024
A string of migrant landings over the past four days in the sun-swept Turks and Caicos Islands is bringing more than just undocumented Haitians to the British Overseas Territory less than 500 miles from Miami.

Police in the Turks and Caicos say that along with detaining 217 undocumented migrants in five separate landings since Friday, they’ve also seized more than $2 million in marijuana.

The marijuana was discovered following two separate interceptions of undocumented migrants coming from the northern coast of Haiti on Friday and Saturday. Haiti’s southern coast, because of its proximity to Jamaica, is a popular route in which guns are traded for marijuana and is known as “the guns for ganja” network. But it’s highly unusual for cannabis to be coming out of the northern coast, raising questions about its origin and transportation.

Turks and Caicos police say they are investigating both the seizures and the landings. The first bust occurred on Friday when a team of officers responded to an illegal landing around 11:40 p.m. at Bird Rock on the island of Providenciales; 15 migrants were aboard the boat, along with marijuana with a street value of $131, 660.

The following day, officers discovered two more illegal vessels ferrying undocumented migrants when the marine unit of the Royal Turks and Caicos Police responded to a call at 5 p.m. Saturday in Jones Cay. Officers detained 41 migrants including three minors, six women and 32 men onboard the boats along with marijuana. The drugs have an estimated street value of $2,704,932.

“The trafficking of illicit contraband, such as cannabis, into the Turks and Caicos Islands is an offense with serious penalties,” Royal Turks and Caicos Police Commissioner Edvin Martin said. The police and law enforcement partners, he added, “are resolute in finding the people involved in the smuggling of people and trafficking of illegal drugs and will pursue all leads to bring them to justice.”

On Sunday, a fourth vessel ferrying undocumented migrants was intercepted at approximately 10:17 p.m. by officers from the marine unit of the police with assistance from the Royal Bahamas Defense Force. The boat was intercepted near the island of West Caicos. The vessel was escorted to Providenciales, and 144 migrants onboard were handed over to the Border Force for processing. Among the migrants were 111 men, 32 women and five minors. All have been detained and will be repatriated to Haiti.

Around 4:50 a.m. Sunday officers were back out again to respond to a fifth landing, near Long Bay in Providenciales. The vessel was carrying 17 migrants

 

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*Full statement

https://caricom.org/statement-by-the-eminent-persons-group-following-the-visit-to-haiti-11-16-august-2024/

Aug 20, 2024