In Haiti, at least six people have died in nearly week long protests demanding that President Jovenel Moise resign. A police spokesman said all 78 detainees at the prison in Aquin, a city on the Tiburon Peninsula, escaped around midday yesterday.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''Witnesses said the prison break took place during an anti-Moise demonstration in front of the police station adjoining the penitentiary. Demonstrators are demanding Moise quit over a scandal centering on the Petrocaribe fund, under which Venezuela supplied Haiti and other Caribbean and Central American countries with oil at cut-rate prices and on easy credit terms for years.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''Investigations have shown that nearly 2 billion US dollars from the program were misused. A report released in January also named a company that was then headed by Moise as a beneficiary of funds from a road construction project that never had a signed contract.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">While the government has offered no response to the demands of demonstrators, opposition groups have also failed to spell out any concrete solution to the crisis, beyond calling for the president to step aside.</span><br />
News On AIR | February 13, 2019 1:48 PM
Haiti: At least six people died in protests aginst President Jovenel Moise