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Haiti: MINUSTAH Chief, OAS Secretary General Hold Talks

Above: MINUSTAH Chief Sandra Honore and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Sandra Honore, the head of the UN’s MINUSTAH peacekeeping force in Haiti, held talks this week with Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza in Washington. The talks covered “the main economic, political, and […]

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Haiti: Brazilian Named Force Commander of UN Peacekeeping Mission

Above: United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti (UN Photo/Marco Dormino) By the Caribbean Journal staff Brazil native Lieutenant General Jose Luiz Jaborandy, Jr has been named the new force commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Thursday. Jaborandy, Jr succeeds fellow Brazilian Lieutenant General Edson Leal Pujol. In […]

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Dominican Republic President Meets With MINUSTAH Chief

Above: Dominican President Danilo Medina and MINUSTAH Chief Sandra Honore By the Caribbean Journal staff Dominican Republic President Danillo Medina held talks on Friday with Trinidad native Sandra Honore, the special representative of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Haiti and the head of the MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission. The talks in Santo Domingo took […]

Haiti: Brazilian Named Force Commander of UN Peacekeeping Mission

Above: UN peacekeepers in Haiti (UN Photo/Jesus Serrano Redondo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to extend the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti until mid-October of 2014. The unanimous vote also slightly reduced the mission’s troop levels, with up to 5,021 troops, along with a police component of 2,601 […]

New MINUSTAH Chief Arrives in Haiti

Above: Sandra Honoré and Ban Ki-Moon (UN Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago native Sandra Honoré, the new head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, arrived in Port-au-Prince on Monday. Honore has officially assumed her duties, succeeding Interim MINUSTAH Chief Nigel Fisher as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s Special Representative in […]

Haiti's Lamothe Meets With New Head of UN Peacekeeping Force

Above: Sandra Honore and Laurent Lamothe By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe met Tuesday with Sandra Honore, the new head of the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in the country. It was the first meeting between Lamothe and Honore, a native of Trinidad who took over as the new special representative for […]

Canada Sending New Deployment to UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti

Above: UN peacekeepers in Haiti (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff A deployment of Canadian Armed Forces will be joining the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Canada’s government announced Wednesday. A 34-member CAF platoon from Quebec will be joining the Brazilian peacekeeping battalion in Haiti until December. The team departs on Friday […]

Trinidad's Sandra Honore to Lead UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti

 Above: a UN vehicle in Petion-Ville By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago diplomat Sandra Honore has been named the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced this weekend. Honore succeeds Mariano Fernandez, who concluded his term in January. Nigel Fisher has been serving as […]

Haiti: US, UN "Welcome" Formation of Transitional Electoral Council

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s recent agreement on a transitional college of the Permanent Electoral Council, a move that paves the way for the holding of long-delayed elections, is drawing praise from the United States and the United Nations. In a statement, the UN’s MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission said it “welcomed” […]

At a Former MINUSTAH Base, Tourism Hopes in Haiti

Above: the former base and soon-to-be tourism school (Photo: MT Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff It was once the base of Senegalese soldiers in the MINUSTAH peacekeeping force in Haiti. Now, the former UN building is set to reopen as a very different kind of facility as part of a major push for the […]

Haiti: Sri Lanka Sends New Contingent of United Nations Peacekeepers

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Sri Lanka is sending 750 new soldiers to be part of the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Haiti, the country’s government announced Monday. A group of 400 soldiers from the country’s Sinha regiment departed for Haiti on Monday to join the MINUSTAH force. They followed a […]