FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Here is something from The Nouvelliste
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As the country sinks deeper into insecurity and violence every day, a shocking revelation has shed new light on the internal struggles at the top of the state. According to a source at the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT), quoted by Le Nouvelliste , the question of whether members of the executive branch have a problem with the director general of the Haitian National Police (PNH), Rameau Normil, is a false debate. What is at stake, says this source, is not an opposition of principle or a divergence of vision, but a fierce struggle for access to a huge economic market hidden under the security prerogatives of the PNH.
The PNH: a lucrative market under the cover of security
Behind the official speeches on the fight against banditry, the PNH seems to be above all a gigantic commercial platform, where the purchase of weapons, ammunition, food and furniture constitutes a market worth several million dollars. A presidential advisor, well aware of the inner workings of power, dropped a bombshell by stating bluntly: “The Haitian National Police is a big market for the sale of food, the purchase of weapons, ammunition and furniture… There are people who are fighting to corner this big market,” reports Le Nouvelliste .
In short, the debate is not about Rameau Normil’s competence or inefficiency. Rather, it is a fierce battle of interests between those who wish to control these lucrative contracts and those who are excluded from them. According to the source cited by Le Nouvelliste , Rameau Normil made the awarding of these contracts more difficult, thus curbing the covetousness of many influential players.
An institutionalized predatory network
This testimony only confirms a known but rarely publicly admitted reality: the PNH, supposed to be the last bulwark against chaos, has become a major economic issue where politics and business are mixed. Far from being an institution strictly dedicated to the protection of the population, it is transformed into a cash cow where opaque contracts and dubious arrangements dictate administrative decisions.
The PNH’s suppliers – whether weapons, ammunition, vehicles or even foodstuffs – are often selected not on the basis of efficiency and transparency, but on the basis of the political affiliations and personal interests of those pulling the strings. In this context, any attempt to reform or regulate these markets inevitably meets with strong resistance.
The real victims: the population and the police
While this battle for control of the PNH’s finances rages, the police officers continue to work in precarious conditions, poorly equipped, poorly paid and abandoned in the face of increasingly better-armed gangs. The population, for its part, suffers more and more each day the consequences of this mafia-style management of public security.
According to this CPT source, quoted by Le Nouvelliste , the fundamental problem is not whether certain authorities like Rameau Normil or not. The real issue is elsewhere: who controls the millions of dollars injected into the PNH? Who decides on the awarding of contracts? Who benefits from this money? So many essential questions which, if they remain unanswered, definitively condemn the PNH to being nothing more than an instrument in the hands of greedy interest groups insensitive to the distress of the Haitian people.
Faced with this reality, one thing is certain: as long as the PNH is perceived as a lucrative market rather than as an institution serving national security, the gangs will continue to impose their law, the police will continue to die as anonymous heroes, and the Haitian people will remain hostage to a system that is corrupt to the core.
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COMMENT:HAITIAN-TRUTH.ORG
In actual fact – since 2019- when DGPNH Godson Aurelus was jailed for smuggling weapons and ammunition – the State Department gave President Jovenel Moise one corporation authorized to ship weapons and ammunition – to the PNH.
Only One!!!
Since then, others have tried to steal this contract, only to learn they cannot receive a State Department Export License for Haiti. Some have approached the State Department approved group – one of the biggest in the States and founded in 1946 – to use their Export License.
All of these requests have been denied.
All of this has delayed supplies for the PNH, such as the failed effort by American embassy INL representative Phillipe Arthur – to steal the contract in partnership with PNH Director Logistics Marjory St. Jean.
The criminal, unconstitutional Prime Minister Conille launched one effort that would have seen foreign mercenaries brought into Haiti for unknown reasons. This group unsuccessfully endeavored to operate under the State Department’s authorized group.
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Perhaps this Vant Bèf Info (VBI) article reveals the group in question. The one, in question, was going to eliminate Haitians, which, of course, would be murder.
Port-au-Prince, November 4, 2024 – In an interview with Vant Bèf Info (VBI), Esaïe Beauchard, expresses his concerns about public spending devoted to national security.
He raised several questions regarding the contract between the Haitian state and the private company Studebaker Group, hired to provide training and mentoring services to Haitian police officers. According to him, the use of this company raises doubts about the conformity of public accounting procedures.
The former mayor of Cité Soleil directly called on Prime Minister Garry Conille, asking for clarification: “Was there a formal contract, approved by the National Public Procurement Commission (CNMP) and the Superior Court of Auditors? How much will these mercenaries cost the country? “, he asks.
For Beauchard, public funds are at stake, and the population deserves to know whether these expenses are justified and whether the procedures respected legal standards.
Beyond this security file, Esaïe Beauchard also calls for the departure of the head of the Prime Minister’s office. He denounces the lack of results in the fight against the insecurity which plagues the country, adding that current management does not provide satisfactory responses to citizens’ expectations.
Jean Allens Macajoux
Vant Bèf Info (VBI)
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The PM Conille contract saw millions of USD skimmed and the actual paper records seem to have disappeared. The Government of Haiti should issue an International Arrest Warrant for Gary Conille in an effort to regain the millions of dollars he stole from Haiti’s treasury.
There is a current, and ongoing effort to derail the acquisition of weapons and ammunition for the PNH. With the present closure of our International Airport, time is wasted trying to use marine solution. The order should have been shipped two weeks ago. Unfortunately, payment has been blocked by those who would like to try gain – THE THEFT OF A CONTRACT UPON WHICH THE NATION’S SURVIVAL DEPENDS.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
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