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Haiti’s IDETTE is concerned over growing child rape

Published on: January 17, 2025
13:46

Port-au-Prince, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) The Departmental Initiative against Child Trafficking and Smuggling (IDETTE) reported on Friday that it recorded 186 rapes in 2024, including 173 on minors.

Work resumes at Haitian capital’s maritime terminal

Published on: January 17, 2025
10:03

Port-au-Prince, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) The activities of Caribbean Port Services (CPS), the main operator of the maritime terminal in this capital, resumed after the gangs that now control that area prevented its normal operation.

Haitian journalists received emergency training

Published on: January 15, 2025
10:48

Port-au-Prince, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) A group of Haitian journalists received a first aid course in emergency situations, just as the press is also a target of the violence that affects the Caribbean nation.

Haitian economy poisoned by insecurity

Published on: January 10, 2025
10:54

Port-au-Prince, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) Insecurity is now considered the most potent poison that makes the economy agonize in Haiti, where unemployment, hyperinflation and the high cost of living are already notorious.

Haitian police fight gangs on several fronts

Published on: January 9, 2025
11:13

Port-au-Prince, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) The National Police of Haiti (PNH) is fighting the gangs on several fronts, with a series of operations aimed at putting an end to the actions of the bandits that terrorize the population.

Lack of Canadian commitment denounced in Haiti

Published on: January 9, 2025
10:59

Port-au-Prince, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) Former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe denounced Canada's lack of commitment with the nation, submerged today in a sea of violence led by armed gangs.

SOS Journalists of Haiti calls for justice for its colleagues

Published on: January 8, 2025
10:55

Port-au-Prince, Jan 8 (Prensa Latina) The organization SOS Journalists of Haiti called for justice to punish the gang members who took the lives of two colleagues, and today seven others remain in critical condition.

More than 5,600 homicides in Haiti in 2024

Published on: January 7, 2025
17:12

United Nations, Jan 7 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Human Rights Office confirmed on Tuesday that at least 5,601 people were killed in Haiti in 2024 as a result of increased gang violence.

Chopper scare shows Achilles’ heel of Haitian armed gangs

Published on: December 29, 2024
12:17

Port-au-Prince, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) Gang members in Haiti fled in fear, leaving their weapons behind, when they saw two US helicopters overflying the area where the former are currently imposing their terror-based control.

More than 17 thousand have died and injured in Haiti since 2022

Published on: December 26, 2024
10:18

Port-au-Prince, Dec 26 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti reported that the death toll since 2022 is 17 thousand people in Haiti.

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