Haiti: Tackling the human suffering
4th March 2023 By Abiodun Kareem Giwa
Prime Minister Ariel Henri of Haiti
Haiti, the first independent nation from the jaws of colonialism, is hemorrhaging and needs urgent help. Caribbean Life newspaper reports that Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the country requires all attention it can get. Miami Herald reports the United Nations, UN, followed Jamaica's PM's call based on its study that the Caribbean country lacks adequacy in every department of governance, and gangs, guns, drugs, and insecurity reign supreme.
There is no shooting war to identify who the enemy is in Haiti. However, the situation is dangerous. There is no Immediate help for citizens exposed to 180 to 200 existing gangs. Police are short in number and cannot cover needed areas to ensure security. The border is open to all forms of dangerous trafficking.
Miami Herald's Jacqueline Charles links Haiti's trouble to the high-profile assassination of Jovenel Moise in 2021, causing rising food prices, increased hunger, cholera, deepened poverty and healthcare loss, and exodus. But curious observers say Haiti was already in the middle of political, economic, and social problems before Moise's murder and that his killing exacerbated it.
Many people asked questions about events in Haiti before the killing. They believed killing signaled a terrible misdirection than helping the country. The good news is the work to restore direction for Haiti to regain normalcy is engaging the Caribbean Community and Common Market, CARICOM nations, and the UN. CARICON delegation visited the country on a fact-finding mission.
What type of help does Haiti need now? Trinidadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Avery Browne says external forces' boots on the ground are premature. He says the solution must be Haitian led by getting critical stakeholders in the country to the table, Caribbean Life reported.
At the same time, the reports show that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is helping to fortify the country's police with mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles. Trudeau says the toll of human suffering in Haiti weighs heavily on him, and Canadians' fundamental objective is to ease the suffering to empower Haitians to chart their future. Canada has given a high-tech surveillance plane for disrupting gangs' communication systems. It is also after local elites' resources to support gangs' fueling instability, help women and children with $10 million, and $12.3 million on the way for humanitarian assistance.
It is time for all lovers of humanity to join Canada in stopping the bleeding in Haiti. Canada is doing much, but there is still room for others to help alleviate the hardship poor Haitians face.
There is no shooting war to identify who the enemy is in Haiti. However, the situation is dangerous. There is no Immediate help for citizens exposed to 180 to 200 existing gangs. Police are short in number and cannot cover needed areas to ensure security. The border is open to all forms of dangerous trafficking.
Miami Herald's Jacqueline Charles links Haiti's trouble to the high-profile assassination of Jovenel Moise in 2021, causing rising food prices, increased hunger, cholera, deepened poverty and healthcare loss, and exodus. But curious observers say Haiti was already in the middle of political, economic, and social problems before Moise's murder and that his killing exacerbated it.
Many people asked questions about events in Haiti before the killing. They believed killing signaled a terrible misdirection than helping the country. The good news is the work to restore direction for Haiti to regain normalcy is engaging the Caribbean Community and Common Market, CARICOM nations, and the UN. CARICON delegation visited the country on a fact-finding mission.
What type of help does Haiti need now? Trinidadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Avery Browne says external forces' boots on the ground are premature. He says the solution must be Haitian led by getting critical stakeholders in the country to the table, Caribbean Life reported.
At the same time, the reports show that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is helping to fortify the country's police with mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles. Trudeau says the toll of human suffering in Haiti weighs heavily on him, and Canadians' fundamental objective is to ease the suffering to empower Haitians to chart their future. Canada has given a high-tech surveillance plane for disrupting gangs' communication systems. It is also after local elites' resources to support gangs' fueling instability, help women and children with $10 million, and $12.3 million on the way for humanitarian assistance.
It is time for all lovers of humanity to join Canada in stopping the bleeding in Haiti. Canada is doing much, but there is still room for others to help alleviate the hardship poor Haitians face.
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