For a week, Haitians have been demonstrating against the high cost of living and bad governance. On Monday, the movement resumed with renewed vigor in several cities across the country, particularly in the West department. In Petit-Goâve, these demonstrations made “ one dead and ten injured “, according Radio Metronome. Le Nouvelliste, which quotes Radio Kiskeya, specifies that the victim was asthmatic and would have died following the explosion of tear gas canisters launched by the police to disperse the crowd.
Thousands of people also took to the streets of Miragoâne, capital of the Nippes department. The participants speak of a peaceful demonstration and criticize, in the columns of the news writer, the national police who tried to disperse the march. The Haitian daily recalls that the mobilization was launched last week by a group of young people from the town, to denounce the high cost of living, the scarcity of fuel and insecurity.
High cost of living, insecurity and government inaction
Same concerns for the inhabitants of Jérémie, who also demonstrated on Monday. The movement, which must be renewed on Tuesday, paralyzed the market, the banks and the circulation. Jeremiah, where Le Nouvelliste refers to a bullet wound. This Tuesday morning, Image 7 indicates that the national road number 1 is blocked at the level of L’Arcahaie. This road leads from Port-au-Prince to Gonaïves. Marches were also organized in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Burning tires and other barricades were erected in Pétion-Ville, Delmas, Nazon and in the city center of the capital, indicates The National. A movement, again, dispersed by the police.
For Le Nouvelliste in his editorial of the day, government and opposition agree to devour confidence and hope “. Added to the soaring prices is the postponement of the start of the school year, ” once again », « because the Haitian State could not meet the conditions for it to take place “. ” In confounding silence and remarkable inaction, the Henry government lets Haiti slide into the confines of a new universe. “, writes Frantz Duval, while “ oppositions are on hiatus they too.
5.6 million Haitians in food insecurity
Meanwhile, the number of food-insecure Haitians has increased by one million. They are today 5.6 million to suffer from it, according to the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, received by Le Nouvelliste. Yet, she insists, there is no reason for Haiti to suffer from food insecurity “. ” In a month, no one can bet that the situation will be better », Analyzes the editorialist. So ” confidence frays, hope, like a thousand confetti, is scattered “and the country sinks” in a new episode of peyi lok who does not say his name » (« blocked country in Haitian Creole, editor’s note).
” Do not drink tap water “, warns the governor of Mississippi
The water in the entire city of Jackson is unsafe to drink, ” even to brush your teeth “says the Republican governor of Mississippi. Jackson is the capital of Mississippi: 168,000 inhabitants, to whom the governor promises distributions of bottled water. A state of emergency has been declared, reads the Mississippi Free Press, because the largest water treatment plant is completely out of order. The rising of the Pearl River, after heavy rains, would be in question, according to Axios.
But in reality, the problems are much older. For a month already, thousands of Jackson residents have no or low water pressure “, and impossible to know when the service will be restored, worries MississippiToday. Result: the State University of Mississippi closes its doors for the time, at least, to install dry toilets for the students.
To live happy, live hidden
Also in the United States, an Atlanta gang that attacked the homes of celebrities is on the way to being dismantled. Athletes, artists – like Mariah Carey in June -, or influencers, have been the targets of carjacking, kidnapping, armed robbery or burglary in the Atlanta area in Georgia in recent months. But according to USA Today, 26 people have just been charged, 16 are detained and accused of belonging to the Drug Rich gang. This gang has been operating since 2016, adds the wall street journal. Its members, recognizable by the acronym Rx they wear on their clothes and jewelry, mainly target celebrities who flaunt their wealth on social media…