US and Panama propose new force of 5,550 in Haiti with the power to detain gang suspects

The president of the Dominican Republic has warned that his administration would take “drastic measures” to protect the country if a U.N.-backed mission in neighboring Haiti targeting gang violence fails.

As world leaders discuss the future of efforts to wrangle the gangs strangling Haiti, Haitians are expressing hopelessness over an international response to the tide of violence.

Dramatic scenes unfolded on the streets of Port-au-Prince Monday morning, highlighting the ongoing struggle for control in Haiti’s capital.

Local 10′s Calvin Hughes arrived in Port-au-Prince on Monday, bringing viewers a firsthand look at Haiti’s challenges and efforts to rebuild a country that was once hailed as the crown jewel of the Caribbean.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country and the rest of Europe just weeks before an election.

South Florida’s Haitian community is pleading for international help as the country has been forced into a state of emergency amid ongoing violence and attacks.

Haitian Bishop Pierre-André Dumas was at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Saturday after arriving at Miami International Airport.

A former Colombian soldier has pleaded guilty to conspiring in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, which plunged the Caribbean nation into violence and political turmoil.

A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a retired Colombian army officer to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

A powerful gang in Haiti has opened fire on a large group of parishioners led by a pastor as they marched through a community armed with machetes to rid the area of gang members.

Boniface Alexandre, who served as president of Haiti from 2004 to 2006 after the coup that overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide for the second time, died on Friday. He was 87.

A Level 4 Do Not Travel advisory has been issued for Haiti telling those from the U.S. not working to leave the island.

A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman to life in prison for his role in helping a group of Colombian mercenaries obtain weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

Haitian Americans are showing their red and blue pride on Thursday in South Florida.

U.S. authorities have arrested four more people in the slaying of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, including the owner of a Miami-area security company that hired former soldiers from Colombia for the mission.

Four key suspects in the killing of Haiti’s president appear for the first time in U.S. federal court to face accusations that they plotted and participated in his assassination, a day after they were transferred to the United States for prosecution.

The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration says gang violence has forced some 96,000 people to flee their homes in Haiti’s capital as the country faces a crisis that has prompted the government to request foreign troops.

The U_N_ Security Council is negotiating a resolution that would impose an arms embargo, asset freeze and travel ban on influential Haitian gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, nicknamed “Barbeque.”.

Every time desperate Haitian migrants in crowded wooden boats arrive in South Florida, Leonie M. Hermantin said she thinks about what they are trying to get away from.

Government Commissioner Jacques Lafontant tells The Associated Press that the bodies of Yvon Buissereth and his unidentified nephew were found Saturday afternoon.

The deputy mayor in the capital’s Cite Soleil district said Tuesday that at least 50 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded since the fighting began Friday.

U.S. authorities say a businessman accused in the July 7 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was extradited to face criminal charges in Miami after he was detained in the Dominican Republic.

Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, a suspect in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse, is now in U.S. custody and is expected to appear in federal court in Miami.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry has sworn in his new Cabinet more than four months after he assumed leadership of Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

A police superintendent in Jamaica has told The Associated Press that authorities have arrested a Colombian man they believe is a suspect in the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

Protesters carrying a sign that reads “Stop deportations to Haiti” blocked the entrance to Port Miami on Monday.

Amid an outcry over the U.S. treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers, the beleaguered island country’s embattled prime minister is pointedly saying that inequalities drive migration.

The office of Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry has issued its first public statement about evidence authorities say they have of phone calls between him and a key suspect in the presidential assassination, saying he received countless calls from people concerned for his safety.

First Lady of Haiti Martine Moïse said she felt like dying after her husband, President Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated July 7 in attack that left her with injuries.

Local 10 News anchor Calvin Hughes sat down with Martine Moise, former first lady of Haiti, for an exclusive interview about her husband’s assassination, her recovery and the country’s future.

Haiti’s chief public prosecutor has invited Prime Minister Ariel Henry to meet with him next week as part of an ongoing investigation into the slaying of President Jovenel Moïse, noting that Henry spoke with one of the main suspects in the case just hours after the killing.

The United States has pledged another $32 million in aid to the victims of Haiti’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake, as the country’s interim prime minister defends his government’s response.

A Haitian judicial official says authorities have secured armed guards to bolster security for court personnel as they prepare to announce the judge who will oversee proceedings involving the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

Haitian police have detained more than 40 suspects in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse, but many people fear the country's crumbling judicial system could result in the assassination going unpunished.

An FBI raid took place Tuesday at a home in a Weston gated community. Records connect the home to a man under scrutiny for loans that may have been involved in the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse earlier this month.

The funeral for slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has been briefly interrupted by nearby gunfire and tear gas as well as agitated supporters that caused U.S. and U.N. officials to leave before his widow spoke publicly for the first time since the attack.

Haitian police have announced the arrest of four additional suspects in connection to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, one of which has ties to South Florida.

Martine Moïse was badly injured during the assassination of her husband at their Port-Au-Prince home on July 7.

Haitian Americans met Friday in Miami-Dade County to pray for First Lady Martine Moïse who remained at Jackson Memorial Hospital for over a week. She was injured during the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, 53, in Port-au-Prince, and hopes to attend his funeral July 23 in Haiti’s city of Cap-Haitien.

A South Florida security firm is facing new questions about the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and intelligence officers say a photo they obtained is proof of a nefarious plot to assassinate the president.

A source is now revealing the steps taken by Haitian police, to track down the suspects in President Jovenel Moïse murder in Port-au-Prince.

Haitian authorities have yet to release the identity of the masterminds behind the July 7th assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in Port-au-Prince, but they have several connections to Florida.

The arrest of a failed Florida businessman in the assassination of Haiti’s president has deepened the mystery into an already convoluted plot.

Former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe served in the role from 2012 to 2014.

James Solages, a Haitian-American from South Florida, is among the suspects in custody in Haiti for his role in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, Haitian officials said.

Haiti’s interim government has asked the U.S. to deploy troops to protect key infrastructure as it tries to stabilize the country and prepare the way for elections in the aftermath of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

As the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse continued, Haitian authorities announced Thursday that 17 suspects were detained, three were killed during a shootout, and eight fled.

Haitian officers in Port-au-Prince reported Thursday that they have arrested six suspects, including two Haitian-American men, in connection with President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination Wednesday at his home. Four died during a shootout. There are still suspects on the run.

A moment of silence for Haiti was held Thursday at the Miami-Dade County Commission meeting, a day after the country’s president was assassinated in his own home.

The last time Haiti was thrust into turmoil by assassination was 1915, when rebels beat to death President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, triggering a nearly two-decade U.S. military intervention.

There was a moment of silence Wednesday afternoon at Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church in the heart of Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. It was in memory of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. A squad of gunmen pretending to be U.S. agents assassinated him about 1 a.m. Wednesday at his home in Haiti.

The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has sent shockwaves across the nation.

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his own home in Port Au-Prince in the early morning hours Wednesday.

South Florida’s Haitian community, as well as the Haitian community around the world, is mourning the sudden and tragic death of their late President.

El primer ministro de Haití, Joseph Jouthe, renuncia al cargo en medio de una oleada de asesinatos y secuestros en el país, que afronta un referendo constitucional y unas elecciones generales para este año.

Haiti's Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe has resigned as the country faces a spike in killings and kidnappings and prepares for an upcoming constitutional referendum and general election this year.

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2021 file photo, Arnel Joseph is returned to the National Penitentiary after being brought before a judge in handcuffs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)PORT-AU-PRINCE – PORT-AU-Haitian authorities announced Friday that more than 400 inmates escaped and 25 people died in a prison breakout, making it the country's largest and deadliest one in a decade, with the prison director and a powerful gang leader among those killed. The prison is known for a 2014 breakout in which more than 300 of the 899 inmates being held there at the time escaped. At the time of Thursday's breakout, the prison held 1,542 inmates, nearly twice its capacity. Haiti's largest prison breakout in recent history occurred after the devastating 2010 earthquake in which more than 4,200 inmates fled the notorious National Penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince.

Hours after the arrests, the opposition nominated a supposed transitional president that no one has recognized. Opposition leaders from various political parties organized protests in the weeks leading up to Feb. 7, the day they allege that Moïse’s term ended. Haiti’s Constitution allows presidents to serve a five-year term, and opponents argue that Moïse already reached that limit. The opposition condemned the arrests and noted the judge has automatic immunity as they accused Moïse’s administration of political repression. The opposition named another Superior Court Judge, Joseph Mécène Jean-Louis, as Haiti’s supposed transitional president after Moïse announced the arrests.

Haiti has unveiled multiple proposed changes to overhaul the countrys Constitution that officials plan to present to voters starting in Feb. 2021 for an upcoming referendum that looms amid growing unrest. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)PORT-AU-PRINCE – PORT-AU-Haiti has unveiled multiple proposed changes to overhaul the country’s Constitution that officials plan to present to voters starting this week for an upcoming referendum that looms amid growing unrest. One of the biggest changes is an omission in the draft issued by an independent commission tasked with creating the constitutional changes that have generated heated debates. Meanwhile, Brian Concannon, an adviser for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, said the proposed referendum itself is unconstitutional, according to the current Constitution. As officials meet with certain sectors of society to discuss the proposed constitutional changes, some are demanding more inclusion.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Haiti is facing a new challenge as the island nation passes the tenth anniversary of its most deadly earthquake. Haitian president Jovenel Moïse spoke with Local 10 News’ Calvin Hughes and discussed his future plans for the struggling country. That money would have gone to the salaries of deputies and senators in the Haitian parliament that has now been dissolved. Moïse is working to earn the trust and faith of his people. In a tweet at 12:02 a.m. Moïse said...”We note the lapse of Parliament and we take note of this institutional vacuum.”

Local 10's Calvin Hughes interviews Haitian President Jovenel MoïsePublished: January 13, 2020, 4:35 pm10 years after the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti, Local 10's Calvin Hughes sits down exclusively with President Jovenel Moïse to discuss Haiti's past and future