The United Nations' Haiti rights expert on Tuesday said he believed solving a spiraling insecurity crisis in the Caribbean nation was "doable," if law enforcement are properly supplied and neighboring countries do their part.
The body of a Kenyan police officer who died in Haiti’s UN-backed multinational mission to combat violent gangs has been returned home.
Haiti is in freefall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and “suffering permeates all social strata” in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the UN human rights office’s designated expert on the country,
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Wilbert Jean-Baptiste, a 38-year-old convicted murderer who escaped from a Haitian prison, on Feb. 4.
UN expert on the human rights situation in Haiti, William O'Neill, said that the country is at risk of falling under gang control and reiterated a call for stronger action from the international
JetBlue Airways is extending its suspension of flights into Haiti’s main international airport in Port-au-Prince. Flights will remain suspended until at least June 11, a spokesman told the Miami Herald.
The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) is getting behind a Congressional effort to save a legacy Caribbean trade preference program from lapsing in eight months. Congressman Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) this week introduced the HELP Extension Act—a bipartisan bill that would extend the Haiti HOPE-HELP trade programs for a decade.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement Tuesday extends a ban on U.S. flights to Port-au-Prince that began in November after gangs opened fire on three commercial planes.