PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry has instructed Haitians that 2024 is a 12 months of great challenges that the complete French-speaking Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) nation will face collectively.
“We should restore pleasure to our Haitian sisters and brothers, restore safety, and reconnect with job-generating development. We should additionally arrange clear, inclusive, clear and democratic elections from which new elected officers will emerge, freely chosen by the folks,” Henry stated in his New Yr’s message.
Haiti is celebrating its 220th anniversary of independence on Monday, having proclaimed its independence from France on January 1, 1804, within the port metropolis of Gonaïves by Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
He instructed Haitians that they need to rediscover the instances of yesteryear “when life was good, the place the spirit of brotherhood and sharing prevailed in human relations.
”Throughout the 12 months 2024, I’ll ask all our sisters and brothers right here and within the diaspora to make a ‘nationwide knit’ (working collectively nationally) to permit the nation to maneuver ahead on the trail of growth to offer impetus to democracy, even when we’ve got completely different concepts, we’re brother and sister. We should rely on one another.”
Henry, who got here to workplace following the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, stated that “2024 will probably be a 12 months through which we work for change”.
Haiti has been plunged into socio-economic chaos since Moise’s assassination, with felony gangs ceaselessly utilizing rape to terrorize and extort victims, demand cash and management meals provides.
As well as, the opposition events have been calling for contemporary presidential and legislative elections, staging avenue protests supporting their calls for.
The United Nations Safety Council has accredited a decision permitting for a multi-national drive led by Kenya to revive peace and safety within the nation on the request of Port au Prince.
In a press release, the Haitian Nationwide Police Union (SPNH-17) stated in 2023, greater than 41 law enforcement officials have been killed, 5 disappeared, and 23 police stations have been looted, vandalized, and managed by thugs.
It stated an estimated 2,000 law enforcement officials resigned, vehicles and different police tools have been burnt, and extra law enforcement officials needed to separate from their households after the bandits attacked their homes.
In his message, Prime Minister Henry stated, “To the brotherly peoples and pleasant international locations of Haiti, I want a brand new 12 months of peace and prosperity throughout which their energetic solidarity will proceed to be manifested.
”On this time of grace 2024 devoted to reminiscence, let’s preserve hope for a greater future. I want all my fellow residents right here and within the diaspora a 12 months of tolerance, serenity, dialogue, and peace,” Henry added.
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