around call for action to stop gang violence

THOUSANDS of supporters flooded the streets Sunday in nearly 70 countries to call on the international community to help curb the gang violence that has taken over Haiti and is plunging it further into social and political turmoil.

Miami resident Abigail Calixte said she has family members living in Haiti who are “scared to go out” due to the violence. Calixte, 18, said the country has changed drastically since she last visited when she was 10, when she recalled it having a feeling of “togetherness.”

“I’m tired of seeing everything that’s going on,” said Calixte, who lives in the Little Haiti neighborhood. “Like, this is not the country that I know.”

Gangs have had a decadeslong presence in Haiti, but after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, gang violence has increased as the island-nation’s government has crumbled; the country has not yet elected a new president. And Haiti’s last remaining elected lawmakers, 10 to facilitating scholarships for our region and, in particular, The Bahamas for studying at any of the major universities, Cambridge, Oxford –– we’re talking about that,” he said. “Also, he has commissioned a study to determine the role they would’ve played as a monarch in this whole issue.”

On the sidelines of the event, Mr Davis said the scholarship talk was just a “preliminary chat”.

“I don’t want to discuss everything we had, but it was his thought that as part of the discussion on reparations, consideration should be given to us seeking scholarships, which he has agreed that he would facilitate,” he said.

Mr Davis said he is advancing the initiative with the British High Commission in the country.

(Tribune242)

FirstCaribbean warns customers about fraudsters using fake emails

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FirstCaribbean is urging customers to exercise extreme caution when such instructions are received. This fraud scheme is known as Business Email Compromise (BEC).

Business Email Compromise occurs when fraudsters impersonate persons who are known to you and convince you or your employees to send payments voluntarily to accounts controlled by them.

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For further information on Business Email Compromise, please see FirstCaribbean’s website www.cibcfcib.com –Protect Yourself Against Fraud –Identity Theft and Fraud - BEC. (Loop News) senators, left office in January after their term expired and have yet to be replaced, according to the Brookings Institution. The think tank also said in a February report that Haitian political leaders and the Haitian National Police have ties to the gangs and are unable to control them.

And even two years after Moïse’s death, “The fact that there is no government in power, it means that they could simply multiply and become stronger,” said Gregory Toussaint, pastor at the Tabernacle of Glory church in Miami. And now, gangs control an estimated 80% of the capital, according to the U.N.’s