The Independent

 Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council Wednesday that recently-deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections — and he called feedback from their initial days in the capital “extremely, extremely positive.”He said his government will focus on addressing gang violence and food insecurity, ensuring free elections through constitutional and political reform, and rebuilding public trust in the police.On June 25, the initial contingent of 200 Kenyan police arrived in Port-au-Prince. Kenya has pledged 1,000 police to the international police force and Conille said the next contingent...

Haiti's prime minister says Kenya police is crucial to controlling gangs, calls early days positive

Reuters

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille left Port-au-Prince on Friday to travel to Washington and New York, as freshly deployed Kenyan police officers began patrolling the city as part of a U.N.-backed mission to battle armed gangs that have taken over the capital.

Haiti PM travels to US as Kenyan police patrol capital

The National Police Service (NPS) has dismissed rumours circulating on social media about the deaths of seven of its officers in the troubled Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome has described these claims as baseless, inaccurate, unpatriotic, and malicious. The deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti has garnered international attention as they join forces with the Haitian National Police to restore stability to the troubled Caribbean nation. President William Ruto's commitment of 1,000 Kenyan troops reflects the country's dedication to global peacekeeping initiatives, though the mission faces significant challenges. Haiti has long struggled with instability, a situation exacerbated by the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

IG Koome Denies Deaths of Kenyan Officers in Haiti

A Kenyan Airways flight landed at Toussaint Louverture International Airport early Tuesday with the first contingent of an international armed security mission, viewed as a vital step in helping Haiti combat deadly criminal gangs to restore security. The 200 specialized Kenyan officers and their support staff were greeted on the...

‘Lay down your guns,’ Haiti’s prime minister tells gangs as Kenyan forces arrive

Haiti's leaders face a high-stakes balancing act as Kenyan forces arrive in the violence-wracked country, where security is desperately needed and the new, unelected government must also win over ordinary Haitians. At the same time, many Haitians, desperate for a restoration of order, support the Kenyan force.

Stakes high for Haiti as Kenya forces deploy

The New Humanitarian

I am writing to you as a brother who believes in our common bonds as Black people across the globe. I think there is a common tapestry of history and culture that transcends the thousands of miles between us and binds us so uniquely as a people. Right from the...

Dear Haiti, our Kenyan police are a problem

The Hill

Although 80 world democracies rejected that approach, the largest democracies of Latin America looked atomized, small, and faint-hearted in the face of a great and extraordinary threat to humanity and world peace.

Opinion: Brazil, Mexico and Colombia say no to peace and yes to Putin

Latin Times

U.S. authorities are seeking to resume direct deportation flights to Venezuela and increase the pace of those to Cuba, the acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director told The Miami Herald. Concretely, Patrick J. Lechleitner told the outlet that there are ongoing negotiations toward that end, but that parties are...

U.S. seeking to resume deportation flights to Venezuela, increase pace of Cuba's

Business Insider

A Vanity Fair article published Tuesday contained allegations that the independent presidential candidate once ate a barbecued dog.

RFK Jr., the man running as an alternative to Trump and Biden, just denied he barbecued and ate a dog

Angela Simmons looked like a gun-toting guest at first glance while attending the BET Awards 2024. But although her accessory looked like a firearm, the shimmery green accessory was actually a bag. But while the businesswoman and reality TV star, who's the daughter of Joseph 'Rev Run' Simmons, thought the...

Angela Simmons Apologizes for Bringing Gun-Shaped Purse to BET Awards: ‘I Thought It Was a Fashion Moment'

NBC News

The Biden administration on Friday announced new temporary protected status for Haitians who arrived in the U.S. on or before June 3, 2024, to shield even those who entered the country illegally from being deported back to Haiti, which remains in the grip of gang violence. “We are providing this...

Biden administration gives temporary protected status to 309,000 more Haitian migrants

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Anticipation is mingling with fear across Haiti as the country welcomes the fourth major foreign intervention in its history to fight gang violence choking the Caribbean country. A couple hundred police officers from Kenya met early Wednesday with Prime Minister Garry Conille as they prepare...

Haitians hold their breath as newly arrived Kenyan police force prepares to face gangs

Salon

One of Donald Trump’s attorneys is claiming that the “fake-electors” scheme qualifies as an “official act," thus exempting him from being prosecuted after the Supreme Court's immunity ruling on Monday, the Hill reported. Trump attorney Will Scharf told CNN Monday night that while some of the...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett says presidential immunity doesn't apply to Trump's fake electors scheme

Virginia State

Writers represent independent, third-party users who have joined our contributor program and self-verified their accounts. Writers are expected, like all users, to adhere to our Community Standards.

writer

Cheryl E Preston

Virginia fans of The Bold and the Beautiful, if you were watching earlier this week when Tom Star (Clint Howard died), you know that Li Finnegan (Naomi Matsuda) did not honor her Hippocratic Oath as a physician to "do no harm".

The Bold and the Beautiful shocker: Dr. Li Finnegan broke her Hippocratic Oath by watching Tom die

Mediaite

Stormy Daniels believes Trump will try to make "more of an example" out of her in a second term and his supporters could become more "bold" in their threats.
The post Stormy Daniels Tells Rachel Maddow Trump Will ‘Make More of an Example’ of Her In Second Term first appeared on Mediaite.

Stormy Daniels Tells Rachel Maddow Trump Will ‘Make More of an Example’ of Her In Second Term

The Biden administration has circumvented a GOP blockage to further fund an international mission to help Haiti counter criminal organizations sowing chaos in the country, with the State Department proceeding with a $109 million package this week, The Miami Herald reported. The decision has been described as the "nuclear option,"...

Biden circumvents GOP, authorizes over $100 million to fund deployment of international force to Haiti

Norfolk, VA

Fifty percent of Norfolk church has high blood pressure. 3WTKR reports that Pastor Reverend Dr. Geoffrey Guns of Second Calvery Baptist Church in Norfolk made a startling discovery in March. He asked congregants who had high blood pressure to stand and half of the congregation rose to their feet.

Virginia pastor reveals half of his African American congregation has hypertension

PANAMA CITY -- José Raúl Mulino was sworn in Monday as Panama’s next president, facing pressure to slow irregular migration through the Darien Gap that connects his country with Colombia. The 65-year-old former security minister has promised to shut down migration through the jungle-clad and largely lawless...

José Raúl Mulino sworn in as Panama's new president, promises to stop migration through Darien Gap

(Reuters) -The Dominican Republic announced its foreign minister will travel to New York on Tuesday to participate in a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in neighboring Haiti. During his trip, Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez will also meet with Haiti's new Prime Minister Garry Conille and his...

Dominican Republic's Top Diplomat to Attend Haiti Meetings at UN

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Panama's new president, Jose Raul Mulino, took office on Monday vowing to curb illegal immigration, with his government quickly signing an agreement with the United States to crack down on migration through the treacherous Darien Gap jungle passage.

Panama's new president vows migration crackdown with assistance from Washington

NewsBreak

Haiti’s interim prime minister shares his vision to lift Haiti out of chaos

Criminal gangs control most of Haiti’s capital and it’s become the job of interim Prime Minister Garry Conille to take them on. Conille replaced Prime Minister...

Haiti’s interim prime minister shares his vision to lift Haiti out of chaos

Comments / 0