Thursday, following the investigation of the Chancellery of Haiti, which confirmed a few days ago, many of the allegations of corruption published in the "The Nassau Guardian" https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28362-haiti-social-arranged-marriages-involving-haitians-in-the-bahamas.html and revealed the implications of diplomatic staff in acts of corruption contrary to the rules and ethics of the Mission, especially in arranged marriages for residency and nationality purposes and visa traffic https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28537-haiti-flash-corruption-at-least-4-haitian-diplomats-sanctioned-in-the-bahamas.html ; The Government of the Bahamas has announced the suspension of visas for Haitian citizens until further notice because of "problems" at the Embassy of Haiti in the archipelago.

Despite the recall to Haiti of several Haitian diplomats and the announcement of sanctions https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28537-haiti-flash-corruption-at-least-4-haitian-diplomats-sanctioned-in-the-bahamas.html , Darren Henfield, the Bahamas Foreign Minister, while acknowledging that his Ministry found contradictory acts in the Haitian visa application process, diplomatically told the media (without convincing) that the suspension of visas Haitians was not related to corruption cases...

However, despite the "diplomatically correct" statements of Henfield, several senior Haitian officials have no doubt that it is a sanction of the archipelago related to acts of corruption practiced at the Embassy of Haiti on the territory of the Bahamas and that it will take a lot of diplomatic efforts to regain not only the confidence of the Bahamian authorities but also the mistrust of the other countries of the Caribbean zone towards Haiti...

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28537-haiti-flash-corruption-at-least-4-haitian-diplomats-sanctioned-in-the-bahamas.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28362-haiti-social-arranged-marriages-involving-haitians-in-the-bahamas.html

SL/ HaitiLibre