By Danica Coto | Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.N. development specialist Garry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday evening, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council sought to choose someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to terrorize the capital of … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada is waiving the fees for study permits, open work permits or status extensions at no cost for Haitians with temporary resident status in Canada amid worsening violence in Haiti. The federal government announced the change in a statement Thursday. Those eligible include foreign national family members … Read more
By Brendan O’Brien Reuters Posted May 24, 2024 12:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Three missionaries from Missions in Haiti, Inc., an Oklahoma-based group, were shot and killed in an ambush by a gang in Haiti, the organization said on Friday. The three missionaries were holed up in … Read more
By Danica Coto | Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s main international airport reopened Monday for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it. The reopening of the Toussaint-Louverture airport in the capital of Port-au-Prince is expected to help ease a critical shortage of medications and other … Read more
A few weeks ago, two of the main criminal gangs in Haiti joined forces, staging a full-scale insurrection while the prime minister, Ariel Henry, was travelling abroad. Thousands of gang members took over government buildings, police stations and hospitals and broke into prisons, where they released thousands more gang members into their ranks. Before long, … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says 36 Canadians have now brought out of Haiti by helicopter. On Monday, Joly had said the first group of 18 had already left, but Global Affairs Canada later clarified that their departure was put off due to bad … Read more
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada has airlifted 18 Canadians out of Haiti, as assisted departures began from the Caribbean nation on Monday. “We know the security situation has deteriorated in recent weeks,” Joly said. “Now the gangs have taken the airport leaving no way to leave Port-au-Prince without putting families in danger.” Joly … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Saturday that Canada’s ambassador to Haiti will remain in the country after she was asked whether the embassy will close amid escalating violence. “We will make sure that our ambassador is in Haiti,” Joly told Global News outside the state funeral … Read more
Members of Canada’s elite special forces unit are in Haiti’s capital city, Global News has learned. Members of Joint Task Force 2, the highly-trained counterterrorism unit, have been preparing to deploy for the past two weeks as escalating gang violence in Haiti reached dangerous levels, sources have said. Some are now at the Canadian embassy … Read more
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