2 new bus attacks

Thursday, February 9, armed individuals attacked a Voix des Anges bus in the 4th ave block. Bolosse Port-au-Prince. 2 motorcycles crossed in front of the bus and kidnapped 2 passengers.

Passport madness leaves one dead and several injured

On Friday, February 10, a police officer assigned to the Departmental Unit for Maintaining Order (UDMO) who was trying to force his way into the Center for the Reception and Delivery of Identification Documents (CRLDI) in Tabarre to produce passport applications in favor of his relatives, threw a tear gas canister into the crowd causing the death of a child. Several other people were injured in the panic that followed this incident.

155,000 Haitians displaced by violence

According to the latest updates of the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Haiti between October and November 2022, more than 155,000 people were in a situation of displacement in the metropolitan area of ​​Port -au-Prince following urban violence.

New DG of CONATEL

A new director general has also been appointed to head the National Telecommunications Council (CONATEL). This is Joses Jean-Baptiste who succeeds Jean Marie Guillaume, who died last December in the United States https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-38628-icihaiti-obituaries-death-of-leon-jean-marie-guillaume-dg-of-conatel.html

PNH : The CD Bruce Jean Myrtil replaced

Thursday, February 9, 2023, Divisional Commissioner Goodson Jeune, was installed as the new Departmental Director of the National Police of Haiti in Artibonite. He replaces the Divisional Commissioner Bruce Jean Myrtil in this position.

Winners of the literary criticism contest

Thursday, February 9, at the National Pantheon Museum (MUPANAH), as part of the ceremony of the official launch of the Year of Haitian Heritage, the Ministry of Culture awarded prizes for the literary criticism competition:

1st: Yamilah Devalon: review of Dany Laferrière's Odeur de café;

2nd Dorvensca Machla Isaac: review of Compère Général Soleil by Jacques Stephen Alexis;

3rd prize: Marthe Huguese-Nie Louisie François: review of Gouverneur de la Rosée by Jacques Roumain.

HL/ HaitiLibre