Prime Minister Jouthe installed Rockefeller Vincent on Friday as the new Minister of Justice and Public Security. He replaces Lucmane Délile who was dismissed of this post Thursday https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22306-haiti-flash-architecture-competition-for-the-reconstruction-of-the-national-palace.html

In his remarks for the occasion, the new Minister declared "I come to ensure that the values ​​that characterize justice can have priority, to the detriment of the excesses and deviances which kill the Nation [...] I take charge of the Ministry with the firm resolution to serve my country with this craze pressing to contribute. And above all with this sense of civic duty which must characterize any authentic citizen. The projects dictated by my superiors will be launched very quickly."

Let us hope that these declarations are followed by effective acts, because we must not forget that Rockefeller Vincent had been dismissed as Deputy Government Commissioner near the Court of Appeal of Cap-Haitien in September 2017 by the Minister of Justice of tht time Heidi Fortuné, and approved by Prime Minister Lafontant, for his unproductivity during the period from October 2015 to July 2017.

In his letter of revocation Minister Fortuné wrote "[...] as part of the sanitation policy implemented by the Government since its installation, it was decided to terminate your functions, for which You are remunerated without justification, as Deputy Government Commissioner at the Court of Appeal of Cap-Haitien, this, for Absence of performance[...]"

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