Govt to settle logistics for troops as UN approves mission to Haiti

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS

Tribune Staff Reporter

lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

AFTER the United Nations Security Council approved a year-long multi-national security mission to Haiti on Monday, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said his administration will now settle logistical issues related to sending troops abroad.

“We are not just going to send them there without having a broad understanding of the mandate,” he told reporters.

He said the government is awaiting final documents from the UN Security Council.

“Once that comes, we will then have conversations with the lead team that will be going there, that will be truly leading and the principal actors in this whole assistance to Haiti,” he said. “And then we will decide how that will look.”

The mission, led by Kenya, aims to secure critical infrastructure and transit hubs such as airports, ports, schools, hospitals and key intersections.

Haiti’s security and social conditions have deteriorated since President Jovenel Moise’s assassination in 2021.

On Monday, Royal Bahamas Defence Force Commodore Raymond King said that while Haiti’s environment is unsafe, Bahamians will be protected.

“It’s not a safe environment given the gang activity, but the public could rest assured, if and when we decide to send persons to Haiti, the vulnerabilities and the risks will be reduced significantly,” he said. “We will make sure that our members are prepared to the highest degree. We are resourced and prepared to keep any risk of casualty to a minimum.”

The Bahamas has committed 150 officers to the multi-national mission. Mr Davis declined to discuss how the deployed officers would be chosen, leaving this to Commodore King.

Between 1994 and 1996, 141 Defence Force officers conducted security operations in Haiti as part of a United Nations peacekeeping operation.

Comments

TalRussell says...

Remember the lessons of the Frenchmans'. --- Before deploring the colony's troops to be propping up Haiti's elite class. ---- The premiership would be best to wait until after all campaigning is ended for the Freeport byelection and the voting results are made Official. --- The biggest anti-war movement of all the colony's out islands is right there in Freeport. --- Yes?

Posted 4 October 2023, 5:05 p.m. Suggest removal

bahamianson says...

How is it that the PM is talking about this matter but when something bad happens , he does not recall? He always seems to distance himself for bad situations but wants to talk about everything. If it is a bad situation he says he has no knowledge of it but seems to know everything. Such irony.

Posted 4 October 2023, 6:59 p.m. Suggest removal

hrysippus says...

Hey Talrascal,, you speak truth, but a profit is never realized in its own company, if politics be involved.

Posted 4 October 2023, 10:17 p.m. Suggest removal

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