Port-au-Prince, April 21, 2024 [AlterPresse] — For several weeks, gunshots have not stopped breaking out in Dëlma, where the national police are exchanging horns with gangs and guns, making maneuvers to continue to devastate businesses and try to bring more areas under the control of terror and violence, according to the testimonies that have been found AlterPresse and AlterRadio.
On Saturday, April 20, 2024, shots continued to ring out in the center of Port-au-Prince. The national police of Haiti continued to exchange horns with gangs and weapons, sowing terror without looking back in several neighborhoods. There are many places in Port-au-Prince that have been turned into wastelands and garbage dumps.
On the night of Thursday 18 to enter Friday 19 April 2024, gangs with guns ransacked the national press office, in downtown Port-au-Prince, where there were many documents belonging to the country of Haiti. At the time, on Friday, April 19, 2024, he went to see what was happening at night, the director general of the national press, Ronald Saint-Jean, said that gangs and weapons were holding him for 15 minutes. Saint-Jean asked the national police to take measures to protect the national press space in rue de cent, downtown Port-au-Prince, where they have various materials for printing documents.
It was on November 15, 1804, that means almost 220 years today in April 2024, the national press printed its first work, the first documents it printed.
Since Thursday, February 29, 2024, schools, faculties, high schools, hospitals, pharmacies, offices, businesses of all kinds, cars, etc., come under attack and flames from gangs and guns, in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
Between January and March 2024, more than 1,500 people have died out of more than 2,500 victims of gang and gun violence in Haiti, especially in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. During the first 3 months of 2024, gang and gun violence took on a more severe dimension than in past years.
The number of acts of violence and terror by gangs and weapons, during the first 3 months of 2024, is more, harder than the period from October to December 2023.
In the first 3 months of 2024, armed gangs kidnapped more than 430 people and forced their parents to pay money to release them, in the Western and Latibonite departments.
Since the gangs and guns increased their terror from Thursday, February 29, 2024, they killed and injured 19 national police officers. They broke at least 22 police posts. More than 4 thousand 600 prisoners escaped from the national penitentiary of Port-au-Prince and the civilian prison of Quaderbouque. All these figures are collected by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh) on April 19, 2024.
Is this collection to be presented to the Security Council of the United Nations?
In any case, the question of the amount of money that could be included in the multinational force that would be deployed on the territory of Haiti will be discussed by the United Nations Security Council on Monday, April 22, 2024. On the occasion, the head of Binuh, a native of Ecuador, Maria Isabel Salvador, will say how she sees the situation in Haiti for the first 3 months of 2024, according to the available information.
How can the country of Haiti regain hope? Today’s reflection item on AlterRadio.
Transition, we will go into it, is one of the first times where many Haitians will come together in a political project, even though they don’t have the same idea. It should be an opportunity to put the country of Haiti on the road to progress, in peace, without disturbance. It is considered in the TiChèzBa broadcast, on AlterRadio 106.1 Fm and various internet platforms, Jean Clarens Renois, who is the coordinator of the Unir political party in an alliance that sends delegates inside the President’s Council for the transition.
On Thursday, April 18, 2024, members of the President’s Council for Transition held talks with the Prime Minister for a long time, Michel Patrick Boisvert, as well as the Director General for a long time of the National Police, Frantz Elbe. This meeting was to see what security measures will be taken throughout the country, especially for the official installation of members of the President’s Council for the transition, which should be held in the coming days, according to the available information.
There is a commission in charge of making preparations, which will allow the de facto government of Ariel Henry to pass the political reins to the President’s Council for the transition. Within this commission, there are small commissions in charge of security, protocol, logistics and money matters, in the process of handing over the political power. There are supposed to be many talks in this regard, according to information obtained by AlterPresse and AlterRadio.
Honest people, with skills and experience, should be chosen by the Transitional Presidential Council to enter the new transitional government that will take over the political power of the country of Haiti. The president’s council for the transition should act quickly, in setting up a new government that will take the political direction of the country of Haiti. It is the request of the Assembly for a national agreement, which has its delegates inside the President’s Council for the transition. [ppsf emb rc apr 21/04/2024 12:57]
