PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Gunmen fired through the windows of a Haitian radio station just one week after the radio broke a story implicating four high-level police officers in drug trafficking, a radio official told Reuters Saturday. Vision 2000, a private radio station, was the first media to report on the detention of four police commissioners last week, one of whom headed security at the presidential palace, for alleged involvement in drug trafficking. The four officers were found at a hotel in the northern city of Cap-Haitien where local police captured three Colombian drug traffickers and seized an unspecified quantity of cocaine. [continues 196 words]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 10 (Reuters) - Haiti's prime minister said on Wednesday the country has worked hard to fight narcotrafficking and should not have been rejected for U.S. certification as a partner in the anti-drug effort. "The DEA (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration) is here and there are American boats that penetrate our waters as part of this programme to fight narcotrafficking," Jacques Edouard Alexis told Reuters. "Haitian agents are doing their work. This non-certification, it doesn't just penalise Haiti, it penalises the DEA, in my opinion. We are working together, so there is a problem." [continues 330 words]
