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Moments after Haiti made a new transitional presidential council official on Friday, the Biden administration ordered the release of $60 million in assistance for the beleaguered country, most of which will go towards equipment and training for a multinational police force to be headed by Kenya to help the Haitian police force battle gangs.

Haiti’s leaders have finalized a political agreement to serve as the framework of a 22-month transitional government that will be charged with returning order to the gang-plagued capital and pave

Garfield Ekon Staff Writer Two Jamaicans traveling from the Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), are now before the court after they were charged over the concealment of cash amounting to US$70,000. According to reports from the police in Jamaica, the two who entered that country recently, hid the funds among hair products […]

 

Dana Malcolm Staff Writer  Around 330 troops from Jamaica, Belize and The Bahamas are gathered in Jamaica this month for Canadian led training as they prepare to be deployed into Haiti. On March 30th around 70 Canadian Armed Forces CAF members left North America for Jamaica to participate.  According to the Canadian government, the request […]

GENEVA (28 March 2024) – A UN Human Rights Office report published today calls for immediate and bold action to tackle the “cataclysmic” situation in Haiti.  “Corruption, impunity and poor governance, compounded by increasing levels of gang violence, have eroded the rule of law and brought State institutions… close to collapse. The impact of generalised insecurity on the population is dire and deteriorating…and the population is severely deprived of enjoying [...

Haiti’s leaders have finalized a political agreement to serve as the framework of a 22-month transitional government that will be charged with returning order to the gang-plagued capital and pave the way toward elections for the swearing-in of a new president in two years — on Feb. 7, 2026.

The latest developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security, human rights, and the rule of law.

Haitians are continuing to flee the surge in violence in their country’s capital while all domestic and international flights in and out of Port-u-Prince remain suspended. The worsening situation and lack of movement, both by those inside and outside of Haiti, led one of the country’s leading journalists, Roberson Alphonse, to ask this week whether Haitians lives don’t count in the eyes of the international community. “We are people,” he said on Port-au-Prince&...

Haitians are continuing to flee the surge in violence in their country’s capital while all domestic and international flights in and out of Port-u-Prince remain suspended. The worsening situation and lack of movement, both by those inside and outside of Haiti, led one of the country’s leading journalists, Roberson Alphonse, to ask this week whether Haitians lives don’t count in the eyes of the international community. “We are people,” he said on Port-au-Prince&...