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People on the beach in Jacmel on Aug. 25, 2024. Residents in the port city in southeast Haiti fear that the gang violence of Port-au-Prince and its outskirts will eventually reach them.
Jacmel (French pronunciation:; Haitian Creole: Jakmèl) is a commune in southern Haiti founded by the Spanish in 1504 [2] and repopulated by the French in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince across the Tiburon Peninsula, and has an estimated population of 40,000, while the commune of Jacmel had a population of 137,966 at the 2003 ...
Sud-Est (French, pronounced ⓘ) or Sidès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "South East") is one of the ten departments of Haiti located in southern Haiti. It has an area of 2,034.10 km 2 and a population of 632,601 (2015). Its capital is Jacmel.
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [ 10 ] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [ 13 ]
Joseph Lambert (born 5 February 1961 in Jacmel [1]) is a Haitian politician who served as the president of the Haitian Senate from 2021 to 2023. [2] [3] [4] Lambert had previously been the president of the Senate from 2006 to 2008 and from 2018 to 2019.
But this month, Haiti's anti-corruption unit recommended legal action against three council members it said had accepted credit cards and asked for nearly $770,000 from the chairman of a state-run ...
Jacmel (Haitian Creole: Jakmèl) is an arrondissement in the Sud-Est department of Haiti. As of 2015, the population was 338,728 inhabitants. As of 2015, the population was 338,728 inhabitants. [ 1 ]
Cayes-Jacmel (Haitian Creole: Kay Jakmèl) is a commune in the Jacmel Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est department of Haiti. It has 36693 inhabitants. It has 36693 inhabitants. Cayes-Jacmel is down the road from Cyvadier and home to a lovely public beach and has a remarkable farmers market (Wednesdays and Saturdays).