NASSAU, Bahamas, Jul 14, CMC – The Bahamas government says it is waiting official confirmation that two of its nationals have been killed in Haiti and that one other Bahamian is in custody in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Bahamas Embassy in Port-au-Prince has received unconfirmed reports of the killings and that “the reports from Labadee, Cap Haitien today are that three Bahamian males and a Jamaican male, while on a speed boat, where shot at from unknown persons, which resulted in two of the males being killed and another hospitalized”.
It said “one male remains unaccounted for”.
The ministry said that the counternarcotics unit of the Haitian National Police (HNP) “has confirmed” that “under the leadership of Acting Superintendent Jeir Pierre, the Port-de-Paix police and prosecutors office intercepted a row boat heavily laden with with drugs.
“The result : two Jamaicans drowned, one body in the morgue and a Bahamian in custody,” the Haitian authorities say adding that they “seized more than 90 kilos of cocaine” and that “several other suspicious boats are believed to be still at large”.
The Haitians described the operations as “ a first in the history of the Northwest”.
The Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said “it is communicating with the official and relevant authorities in Haiti and will continue to monitor and provide updated information”.
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