Protesters enter inside the courtyard of the international airport during a demonstration to denounce poor police governance, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
FRIDAY UPDATE: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Friday that all seven Bahamian diplomats, including the spouse of the charge d’Affaires, were airlifted out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti by helicopter.
They have landed safely in the Dominican Republic.
“The Prime Minister has expressed his deep gratitude and highest consideration to the President of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader and the Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic Roberto Alvarez for the execution of this process,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that diplomats are likely to be home shortly.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis ordered all Bahamian diplomatic personnel in Haiti to immediately leave the country as soon as security conditions permitted, citing the rapidly devolving and unstable conditions there.
The order comes amid reported violent gang killings of police officers and protests in Haiti.
FROM EARLIER:
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has ordered all diplomatic personnel in Haiti to immediately leave the country as soon as security conditions permit, citing the rapidly devolving and unstable conditions there.
The order comes amid reported violent gang killings of police officers and protests in Haiti.
“The Prime Minister has ordered an immediate involuntary departure from Haiti of all diplomatic personnel or as soon as security conditions permit,” a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted.
“Up to this time, there was a voluntary departure order in place and all staff at the embassy chose to stay. Per the new instructions, they are to leave for home as soon as conditions permit.”
The statement said this “is only a temporary measure” in view of recent developments in Haiti that require “a corporate security and intelligence assessment and restaging”. The statement said that all Bahamian diplomats are safe.
The statement continued: “This morning the Chargè reported that they had been stopped by Haitian police and relieved of their vehicle and weapons. This is part of a protest by the Haitian National Police against their own authorities.
“There also is a report of five Bahamians from Bahamasair who landed at Port-au-Prince Airport who were unable to leave the environs of the airport. They are all safe and well.
“The security situation appears less stable over the past three days in the country, and we are taking steps out of an abundance of caution.
“The pattern of security concerns is one of ebb and flow and these withdrawals are sometimes necessary to regroup. The security forces in our country have been alerted to these developments.”
The Associated Press reported that outraged rebel police officers “paralysed” Port-au-Prince yesterday in protest of a slew of killings of police officers by Haitian gangs.
More than a hundred protesters blocked roads, shot guns into the air, and broke through gates in the capital’s airport and the Prime Minister’s house, with tensions escalating throughout the day, AP reported.
“Gangs have killed at least 10 officers in the past week; another is missing and one more has severe bullet wounds, according to the Haitian National Police,” AP reported.
“Video circulating social media — likely recorded by gangs — shows the naked and bloodied bodies of six men stretched out on the dirt, their guns laying on their chests. Another video shows two masked men who are smoking cigarettes from the dismembered hands and feet of the dead men,” AP said.
This comes after a protracted period of violence and tension in Haiti after its President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by armed men in July 2021.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said once conditions improve, a team will be sent back into Haiti without further announcement.
Comments
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
What a sh!thole
John 1 year, 2 months ago
Obviously you speak in ignorance. Go and find out who ( countries) is responsible for keeping Haiti in its poor and broken state for almost two centuries.
ExposedU2C 1 year, 2 months ago
I bet you blame your mother for your birth out of the wrong hole. LOL
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Buddy there have been countries that have been bombed to rubble and built back a functioning society. No reason why they can't get it together other than their own incompetence.
Porcupine 1 year, 2 months ago
Utter ignorance of the real history.
stillwaters 1 year, 2 months ago
They lambasted Trump when he said the same thing
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Thing is there's no telling if he even said that. He was accused of saying it with no proof, but whether he said it or not, it's true. Trump was the best thing to happen to the USA in many decades, too bad.
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 2 months ago
Trumps staff have basically said he was unhinged. An unhinged leader with access to nuclear weapons is the worst thing for said country and the world since Adolf Hitler
ExposedU2C 1 year, 2 months ago
A senile and demented Biden controlled by the deep state and Xi Jinping is infinitely worse than Trump could ever be. LOL
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 2 months ago
Who loved Xi more than Trump?
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Trump wasn't "unhinged" at all. In fact when he was in power North Korea stopped firing rockets and played nice with South Korea. Also he was also the only President in something like 5 decades to not start a new war. Now we have senile Biden trying to start WW3 with Russia.
ThisIsOurs 1 year, 2 months ago
Trump was unhinged
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Trump wasn't unhinged. Biden however, is definitely senile.
Porcupine 1 year, 2 months ago
My god. What world are you living in?
Baha10 1 year, 2 months ago
Would seem as if the equivalent of ISIS is forming in our backyard … and Lord only knows how many “recruits” are already within our borders!
pileit 1 year, 2 months ago
yeah, cultured gentle people only seeking a better life for their chirren... where's the local activist guy saying its not as bad as it seems and there is no vicious gang element to be concerned about coming to our shores.... y'all stay sleeping, I armed and ain gern down easy.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
The way to fixing Haiti mayb be through a number of Haitians leaving that country and empowering themselves elsewhere. Equipping themselves with the tools necessary to pull that country up by its shoestrings. But remember Haiti also has natural resources and when government becomes dysfunctional accountability also goes out the window. That includes peoples, persons and things.
ExposedU2C 1 year, 2 months ago
Yeah, so they can do to other countries like they've done to their country and The Bahamas. That's a brilliiant idea if there ever was one! LMAO
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
The only way to fix them is to put them back under colonialism, maybe under the Chinese.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
That’s what you wishing for ay? You will never see it! Haitians are not displaced by their own wrongdoings but by countries that are still punishing them for fighting for their freedom from slavery. And judgment will come to those countries. It may be slow in coming but the punishment will be swift , severe and unrelenting.
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
I wouldn't say I'm wishing for it. But they'd be better off that way. Obviously they can't run a functioning society. You keep blaming other countries for Haiti's situation but how are countries "still punishing them for fighting for their freedom from slavery"? Please do explain.
Sickened 1 year, 2 months ago
What Haiti needs is the French to go back in a clean up the mess. Leaving it to the locals was a death sentence. Just look at us... it's happening here as well.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
The French needs to repay Haiti all that money it extorted from ii under the pretense of giving it freedom then turned around and blacklisted the country along with The US, Canada Holland and other slave owning countries. Haiti has paid its price a thousand times over for becoming the first Black , most economically powerful free nation in this hemisphere. As for The BaHAMAS, yes this country continues to be to comfortable to be in bed with the masters that enslaved them and the average indigenous Bahamian is slowly but surely slipping deeper and deeper into poverty. Bahamians are owning less and less of their economy and many are just negroes still on a plantation. Not being able to afford but food clothing and shelter and some being only able to afford one or two of the three.
hrysippus 1 year, 2 months ago
Does John even know the meaning of the word indigenous? I don't see too many Arawaks and Caribs around Nassau.
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Too bad they killed all the French that helped them in their fight for independence. Doubt any French people will be going back there, ever.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
Where did you get that lie from? You are sickly pathetic!
John 1 year, 2 months ago
‘ On 22 August 1791, the enslaved Africans descended on Le Cap, where they destroyed the plantations and executed all the French who lived in the region.’. These were the people responsible for holding them captive and in slavery. So, yes they had to fight their way out of slavery and yes lives were lost. O but how many million lives ( Africans) were lost during slavery
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
The Haitians even murdered the French that sympathized with them and supported them in their fight. The only whites they spared were the Poles. Look it up. This is common knowledge for anyone that knows anything about the Haitian Revolution. Obviously you don't even know the history you're talking about, not surprising.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
Yea every Black person dumb and ignorant right?
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Who said that? Do you have some kind of complex?
birdiestrachan 1 year, 2 months ago
They should not be sending embassy staff back to Haiti. because there is no way they will be sure that the staff will be safe. the President I believe that was his posotion was murdered. if he was not respected who will be.? They will have to turn the Hatian sloops back because they may soon refuse to accept their people back. Mr Davis is correct. Haiti and its people will have to solve their own problems.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
They kept Haiti poor, dysfunctional and broken for almost two centuries. The key to ending the illegal immigration problem is to fix Haiti. Can’t depend on those who kept it broken to do it…Fixing Haiti will strengthen the entire Caribbean.
ExposedU2C 1 year, 2 months ago
Sorry, but we have way too many your kind in The Bahamas already.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
And the time for your kind is running out!
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Yes you're right. Our time as Bahamians is definitely running out thanks to an invasion of poor and uneducated Haitians that can't stop breeding.
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Their problems could be solved if they simply stopped breeding children their country can't support. I mean at some point something should click in their brains to say maybe if I'm feeding my kids literal dirt to eat then I shouldn't have kids.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
Breeding ( as you call it) is not the problem in Haiti. It is the the constant inference by external forces. Everyone knows gangs are a product of the US prison system. America has a breeding problem opposite to Haiti where it’s white peoples continue to decline. They are actually importing people to keep the numbers up.
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Those White people you speak of know how to run a functioning society, that's why Haitians risk death to get to their country. I assure you if you took all those 12 Million Haitians and dropped them in Montana and took 12 Million White Americans you speak of and dropped them in Haiti, when you came back in 50 years, Haiti would be a functioning society and Montana would be a shithole. The problem with Haiti is Haitians.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
Slavery lasted so long because countries that didn’t participate in it refused to speak out against it, especially against the brutal and inhumane treatment and murder of millions of slaves, black Africans. The church became deaf as their collection plates overflowing with loot from slavery, that took so many souls on innocent unsuspecting and helpless Black people, Haitians included. Many churches were adorned, even to their pulpits with gold and other valuables stolen from the continent of Africa and by the exploitation if slaves. Even today Haiti exists in its broken, mistreated and state of being punished for over 300 years because countries refuse to speak out and condemn the countries responsible. But Haiti will be fixed in this generation and it will be fixed in such a way and with such resolve no one will be able to undo its reparations and those countries responsible for its suffering will pay. Involuntarily.
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Since you care so much about slavery of Blacks/Africans maybe you should focus on eliminating slavery in Africa today. Because right as I type this there are Black Africans still enslaving each other but I don't see you talking about that, hypocrite. Slavery ended in the West a long time ago. As for "those countries responsible" don't forget the African countries that sold their fellow Black people to the White man. Guess they'll be paying too in your Dreamworld.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
First of all you don’t know me to call me a hypocrite but that is how your kind operate, yes I am aware that slavery is still going on in parts of Africa as it is still going on in Asia and parts of Europe. BUT the discussion was about HAITI and what is causing the problems in that country today and causing so many residents to have to flee. And since it stems back to slavery and back to the Haitians having to fight the French for their freedom in engagements that was bloody and became deadly on both sides, And even after the French inquest where they made a financial agreement with Haiti to allow them to ‘buy’ their freedom but still bamboozled that country out of the agreement and out of Billions of dollars that is what is causing the problem today. Haiti wants restitution and J France and The US say no. Not yet payment for slavery but restitution of the monies Haiti paid to France for freedom. President Aristide was close to filing documents to bring this matter before the world court when he was kidnapped and whisked away to the continent of Africa. He was only allowed to return to Haiti when he agreed to drop the matter, among other things ,
John 1 year, 2 months ago
And since you say that there were Africans who helped capture other Africans for the white msn ( no need to capitalize White because unlike Black it refers to color and not to race. So to understand that yeah maybe some Africans were selling other Blscks into slavery you must understand the difference between African and Israelites . The Israelites use to occupy Israel, yes a Black race. That was before a population of white peoples came down from the caves in the Caucus mountains. Some went down the other side of the mountain into Russia and were called Caucasian. Other s ended up in Europe and eventually the United States, BUT some also went into Israel and claimed to be Jews. To avoid conflict and possible death, the black Israelites that occupied Israel at the time fled down into the jungles of Africa. Many ended up on the West Coast of Africa, Thede are the people the white man really wanted to enslave and so yes, the regular Africans may have helped in capturing the Israelites. Until they found that whe white man aldo wanted to capture and enslave them after the population of Israelites dwindled. And remember Africans were captured and put into slavery in Europe long before the slave trade started in the Caribbean and The Americas.
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Don't you ever get tired of playing the victim? You should probably stop listening to whatever Black Israelite channel you're watching on Youtube, Facebook or other social media, nothing good will come of it. Blacks aren't the only people on this Earth to have been enslaved, literally every culture practiced slavery at some point and thankfully stopped it. And like I said before, they're still practicing slavery in Africa as I type this, yet all of you Black Supremacist, Pan-African, Black Power, Woke, Conscious or whatever-you-call-yourself types don't care about that, and don't pretend like you do! Because if people like you actually cared so much about slavery of Blacks you wouldn't be in the Bahamas, America, Europe etc. right now. You'd be in Africa fighting in solidarity to emancipate Blacks over there. You're nothing but a bunch of phonies and race hustlers hoping to pocket some free cash from White folks with a guilt trip about something that happened before they were born. All of the actual slaves and slave owners from the West are long dead. So time to move on and stop pretending, you are fooling nobody but yourself. 😃
GodSpeed 1 year, 2 months ago
Give them reparations and they'll be right back begging for more money once it's gone. Also what exactly is "my kind" what are you saying hm?
John 1 year, 2 months ago
If you read the post you made about me then you already know what or who ‘your kind’ is. No need to play the ‘DumbBob role now. Or is it Slow Mike?
benniesun 1 year, 2 months ago
John your comments are correct, and it is repulsive to read the ignorant comments by other unthinking persons.
REPOST
The ruling elite and ruling races are puppets of an evil spiritual being. Our leaders got caught up in the evil doing and got their kundalini raised (sacral gland massage) - that is the initiation which opens one for possession by evil entities. The NWO is just a sham to distract as the world order system was in place since our ancestors were defeated. Stop thinking so small because this entire realm was seized from our ancestors by the parasites - that is why reparations is not possible. We have been fooled into believing that Gods do not exist and many into worshiping the conquering enemy God who hates us, sanctions our enslavement and keeps us under subjection by ensuring that our countries fail. Any idiot can easily see and understand that we are all slaves to the financial system which is enforced by government agencies - with the favored ones on top of the food chain.
Reality_Check 1 year, 2 months ago
Both you and John unknowingly got baited into flashing your own very deep seated racism.
benniesun 1 year, 2 months ago
Being proud of my racial and spiritual heritage is not racism. You make is seem like others can be proud of theirs, but not us.
John 1 year, 2 months ago
And that was always the problem with the Caucasian. They want to strip everyone else of their culture, religion norms etc and force their own on them. They even destroyed artifacts, books art,
John 1 year, 2 months ago
That is your very unsubstantiated opinion based on your own racial bias. Of course you hate to hear the truth !
John 1 year, 2 months ago
Reparations may not be possible but redemption will come.
SP 1 year, 2 months ago
Too many Haitians sitting in the Bahamas Parliament!
JokeyJack 1 year, 2 months ago
Wonder how many blank passports and work permits they left behind? My guess is 12 million of them, enough for every man, child, and microwave oven down there.
Porcupine 1 year, 2 months ago
Why does a small country like The Bahamas need to pay 7 people to be in Haiti in the first place? Why do most Bahamians I know much prefer to hire Haitians rather than their fellow Bahamians? This is true, isn't it? Why are we bashing Haiti when even a cursory look at out own statistics show quite clearly we are a failed country of the brink of what our own PM calls refugees? Please, someone like godspeed, show me where The Bahamas excels? Show me one instance of where our own leaders give a hint of actual evidence of where they are looking out for the Bahamian people. You can't. The Bahamas is living on borrowed time and money. Anyone standing up to claim otherwise is supremely ignorant. Yes, godspeed, that's you.
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