USA conditional stay : 81,000 Haitians waiting

According to data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under the conditional stay program (Humanitarian Parole) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38566-haiti-flash-new-us-entry-program-for-haitian-migrants-conditions-and-steps-to-follow.html at least 81,000 applications from Haiti are pending : 35,000 (January 2023) and 46,000 (February 2023). For the moment from January to March, nearly 18,000 Haitians have been approved and are already in the United States https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-39427-haiti-flash-conditional-stay-program-nearly-18-000-haitians-already-in-the-usa.html

6 bandits lynched

Tuesday April 2, 2023, residents of the Jalousie district (commune of Pétion-ville) lynched and burned at least 6 alleged bandits. The population is looking for other suspicious individuals in the localities of Sténio Vincent, Jalousie and Sergo.

A policeman stoned

Monday, May 1st in Port-de-Paix, the police officer Dérilien Emmanuel (29th promotion) was stoned and his body burned by the population near the cemetery of Saint-Louis du Nord, following a violent verbal altercation between the police officer and a car driver, during which the policeman injured two citizens with his service weapon.

Surreal claims

Monday, May 1st, responding to the call of several unions, a few hundred workers in the textile sector took to the streets of Port-au-Prince, to demand a daily minimum wage of 2,500 Gourdes (more than twice the wage of a university professor or more than the salary of a doctor...) instead of the current 685.00 Gourdes which had already been increased by 37% in 2022 (Sector F https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-36009-haiti-flash-minimum-wages-the-government-readjusts-upwards-final-version-official.html )

The "Bwa Kale" movement does not worry historian Georges Michel

Historian Georges Michel in reaction to the summary popular executions of alleged gang members, does not think that the "Bwa Kale" movement which consists of the population hunting and killing all the bandits, and which is gaining momentum at the national level, could lead to a civil war.

USA : End of Covid vaccines for air passengers

On May 11, 2023, the United States will lift the mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 for foreign travelers arriving in the United States by plane (compulsory in force since 2021), announced the White House.

HL/ HaitiLibre