NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe.
By LEANDRA ROLLE
Tribune Chief Reporter
lrolle@tribunemedia.net
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said the future of the proposed multinational security mission to Haiti – which Royal Bahamas Defence Force officers have been preparing for months – is uncertain after Kenya halted its plans to lead the mission.
Kenya’s plan to lead the UN-authorised mission faced a significant hurdle in January when a top court ruled it unconstitutional. Now, after Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he would resign once a presidential council is created, Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Koriri Sing’oei said on Tuesday that deploying officers to Haiti had been put on hold.
“There has been a fundamental change in circumstances in Haiti as a result of the complete breakdown of law and order,” he added. “There has to be an authority that can be the basis for a police deployment –– that enjoys constitutional authority in Haiti.”
Adding to the confusion, Kenya’s president, William Ruto, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to lead the mission yesterday, but said it would only do so when a transitional presidential council is formed in the Caribbean. That body will select an interim prime minister and a council of ministers to chart Haiti’s new course. Some political parties in Haiti have reportedly already rejected the plan.
The Davis administration has committed to sending 150 Defence Force officers to a multinational team to stabilise Haiti.
Mr Munroe noted yesterday that The Bahamas would not send officers to help with maritime security as planned “if there is no mission on land”.
Acknowledging that the future of the Haitian mission is uncertain, he said: “It would also be fair to say, if and when the leader of this mission steps up, that does not mean that if they say we’re going today, that we say oh, we’re coming today. You still have to work out what are going to be the parameters of it, what is expected of us, the details that the professional persons would have to work out before we can say, yes, this is acceptable to us.”
“Their position is if Prime Minister Henry is gone, there’s no recognisable government until the transitional government is put in place, and their police will have no one to answer to. That may end up being a short-time issue or longer-term issue.”
“For the moment, I got the impression that it was meant to be a shorter-term issue, and they were moving to have their transitional council consider the appointment of a replacement.”
Comments
SP 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Haiti desperately needed a total reset.The situation in Haiti is the result of decades of endemic and systemic corruption.
Gang leader "barbecue" is doing the right thing. Only by forcibly removing ALL corrupt politicians and starting a-fresh with a whole new slate of people with no political affiliations can Haiti restructure itself to benefit the people.
They need to kick the thieving US and Canada out of their gold mines and keep them away from their oil reserves.
The Bahamas needs the exact same medicine to rid ourselves of the PLP and FNM 50 year reign of endemic and systemic corruption that only benefits the elites and political classes.
Congratulations Haiti. Keep doing what you’re doing!!
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Barbeque will be one in a long line of black leaders who rise to power on populist movements then gobble up the country's riches. I dont buy it. Not after all the killing and releasing all the prisoners, none of it makes sense
Porcupine 8 months, 3 weeks ago
When I read the Tribune headline, TROOPS TO HAITI PLAN ON HOLD AMID CHAOS: Munroe says deployment uncertain with absence of leadership in nation", I wasn't sure of what nation he was referring to regarding the absence of leadership. An editorial mishap?
TalRussell 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Hard to say, if [The Revised Haiti Plan} includes. -- If the U.S. Embassy approached our colony's government as to 'if it chooses' [setting up a detention facility, possibly on the island of Inagua] to process Haitian migrants if there is a mass exodus of Haittians fleeing Haiti. ---- Yes?
bahamianson 8 months, 3 weeks ago
It ain't worth it brudda
bahamianson 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Imagine if you had sent them from last week and they where caught up in Haiti now with no flights. You'll need to think and be sensible. Thankfully, Bahamian policemen were not caught up over there as this situation is happening.
John 8 months, 3 weeks ago
No flights out of Port SubPrince but there are flights. Similar to the lies they have been telling about The BahamasThat it is full of crime and violence and unsafe for tourists. “Their position is if Prime Minister Henry is gone, there’s no recognisable government until the transitional government is put in place, and their police will have no one to answer to. That may end up being a short-time issue or longer-term issue.” But this is the point of contention. Henry was not elected but planted. The Haitians say they will allow no plan to function that doesn’t involve their input
ted4bz 8 months, 3 weeks ago
The moment Haiti begins to stabilize and to benefit from stability, the imperial Western powers and traitors within Haiti will once again interrupt this. Stay out of Haiti, allow the Haitians to work their situation out by themselves, they can do this. The Haitian people must amass to drive the western imperial powers and their operatives out of Haiti and out of their affairs. Perhaps BRICS will be their best option and hope to make this happen. This is Haiti's struggle, sacrifice, and war they must do this themselves.
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 3 weeks ago
The black nationalism vs the white imperialist sounds good. Haiti is in the state ots in for 2 reasons. First an foremost an almost unending sequence of devastating natural disasters. Nobody caused it. It happened and they needed help. They could not help themselves. Second internal corruption. Just like the Bahamas, billions flow in but somehow get stuck right at the seat of power.. black power while the masses suffer poverty and higher and higher prices
John 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Are you certain all of them were natural disasters… stay woke
John 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Can you explain this: practically ALL the weapons and ammunition used by ‘gangs’ in Haiti are US made. How are these weapons getting into Haiti and into the hands of ‘gangs’. Who is supplying them? Remember when ‘operation fast and furious’ was in effect to track the black market sales of these weapons in Mexico and the Caribbean. The agency responsible for these weapons claims they lost possession of hundreds, probably thousands of these high powered weapons. Then these weapons started showing up on the Streets of Nee Providence and the streets of Caribbean countries. The agency claims they could not track the weapons because they were outfitted with monitoring devices that could not be tracked if they were put in a trunk of a vehicle or in a building. And also the batteries in the monitors only lasted a few hours. So how is it that ammunition for these weapons also mysteriously showed up.
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 3 weeks ago
I dont know. But when we discover why all food and TVs that show up in the Bahamas are foreign made we might be on to something
John 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Stupid response. All food in the Bahamas is not foreign. They did try to get Bahamians to abandon farming and fishing in the 1980’s and go work in the hotels,( not unlike slaves) but that kinda faded off. Secondly little or NONE of the TV’s in Thr Bahamas are American made. They may by imported from the US but they are mostly products of China, Japan or India. So the correlation of your weak attempt to associate to the fact that ALL the weapons found in Haiti are AMERICAN MADE is like zero. Try again. Big difference between everything being foreign and all the weapons being AMERICAN!
Bonefishpete 8 months, 3 weeks ago
"The revolt began on 22 August 1791, and ended in 1804 with the former colony's independence"" They've had 220 years of Independence. You'd think they'd have this figured out by now.
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 3 weeks ago
The really troubling thing here is this reconsideration is actually being promoted as "thinking". Nothing about Haitis instability has changed. Haiti was in the middle of a guerilla warfare when the PM and the national security minister began talking about a "safe/low risk" deployment. Theres no such thing in a guerilla war. You go or dont go and you prepare yourself that someone could be captured or killed, to not do so and sell fairy tales is irresponsible.
John 8 months, 3 weeks ago
And since then it has been mostly Haiti against the world. Those who knew what was really going on was to afraid or too intimidated or too dependent to dtand with Haiti. ALL their food and TV’s came from foreign.
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Lol. You and your strawman arguments
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 3 weeks ago
And the next thing these Bahamians talking about "good" gangs in Haiti need to stop. These guys are raping women and children and murdering and torturing men in the street. Theres nothing good about it.
John 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Stop with the stupidity. But never mind you are a part of the propaganda just like you are part of it against the Bahamas. An active racist or even more? Can you trust it believe the Western media. For example during the conflict with Israel, US media are reporting that HAmas fighters are not only raping and torturing women and children but also having sex with dead bodies. Stooping to any level of gutter journalism to sway public opinion. Fortunately there are many sources of information and the ability to check facts.
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Lol. Oh God please help Johnny
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