Tag: Haiti
Police chopper to help in TCI migrant crisis
(CNS): One of the RCIPS H145 helicopters and its crew have been deployed to the Turks and Caicos Islands to support the police there with a worsening migrant crisis in the islands. Seven undocumented Haitians drowned Monday night after a vessel carrying a large number of migrants collided with a TCI marine patrol boat trying […]
Cayman facilitates United States’ Haiti relief effort
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has given permission for eight helicopters carrying US military personnel to land in Grand Cayman as part of US efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Haiti following the 7.2 earthquake in that country on Saturday. The aircraft are three US Army CH-47 Chinook, three UH-60 and two HH-60 Black Hawk […]
Panton: Assassination of Haiti’s president ‘shocking’
(CNS): The assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse during an armed attack at his home Wednesday morning is “shocking”, Premier Wayne Panton said in a statement expressing dismay at the news. Moïse was shot dead at the presidential residence in Port-au-Prince during the early morning hours and his wife was badly wounded by unidentified gunmen […]
Cayman cops involved in TCI target on Haitian migrants
(CNS): Officers from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service were involved in a joint operation with British and Turks and Caicos Islands police last week targeting Haitian migrants trying to enter the TCI. Officials said that the TCI government had asked for assistance following a “serious upsurge in illegal migrants arriving on the islands from […]