New Les Cayes airport in southwestern Haiti could receive deported Haitians

[Dolores]

Haiti now has two airports open to international flights. These are the Cap Haitien International Airport (CAP) and the Antoine Simon International Airport (CYA), some 9 kms from the coastal city of Les Cayes in the southwest.

The Antoine Simon Airport in the coastal city of Les Cayes, named after a Haitian president who led a rebellion in the early 1900s, operated for almost two decades before renovations began in 2013 to extend its runway.

The Antoine Simon Airport will now be Haiti’s third international airport, a development that is expected to serve the Haitian expat population and Haitians in general, boost the local economy and provide a new way for some nonprofits to distribute aid.

Cap Haitien International Airport (CAP) is served by Haitian airline Sunrise Airways, the Turks & Caicos lines Caicos Express Airways and...

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[NanSanPedro]

Les Cayes is a great way to avoid PaP. From Ouanaminthe in the north guagua it to okap and then fly south to Les Cayes. From there you can go to Jacmel and other points in the southwest peninsula. I've been thinking about that for a long time.

 

[windeguy]

Les Cayes is a great way to avoid PaP. From Ouanaminthe in the north guagua it to okap and then fly south to Les Cayes. From there you can go to Jacmel and other points in the southwest peninsula. I've been thinking about that for a long time.

Well, there is something I will never ever think about. Why go there?

As for flying a half million Haitians from the US to anywhere in Haiti , that could take a while.

 

[JD Jones]

As soon as one plane flies in, gangs will get somebody there to take shots at the next one.

 

[NanSanPedro]

Well, there is something I will never ever think about. Why go there?

As for flying a half million Haitians from the US to anywhere in Haiti , that could take a while.

I would go there to see that part of the country where I've never been. The pictures I've seen are really beautiful. I would also take a few people I know. It could be a lot of fun.

But I really think they will either use the Cap Haitien airport or the one in PaP for the deportees. I also think the TPS deportees won't start until next year.

 

[windeguy]

Having never been to Haiti, nor wanting to ever go there, I will pass.

Why would the USA wait so long to deport the former TPS migrants?

 

[NanSanPedro]

Having never been to Haiti, nor wanting to ever go there, I will pass.

Why would the USA wait so long to deport the former TPS migrants?

Because the overwhelming majority of them are peaceful, industrious, and for the most part law-abiding. My friend Ose who is there is a great example of that.

The Trump administration has already said they will be concentrating on the violent criminals. That will take all this year and probably some of the next. There's way too many. Then there is the appeals process of which I know nothing about.

 

[CristoRey]

Then there is the appeals process of which I know nothing about.

This is the million dollar question.
A.I. may end up playing a role in order to speed up the process.

 

[NALs]

I would go there to see that part of the country where I've never been. The pictures I've seen are really beautiful. I would also take a few people I know. It could be a lot of fun.

But I really think they will either use the Cap Haitien airport or the one in PaP for the deportees. I also think the TPS deportees won't start until next year.

There is an endangered palm spicie that its natural habitat is in a part of Southwestern Haití. It has some fancy name, but why not call it simply the Haitian palm? That’s what it is if the only place in the world where it natural grows is in a part of Haiti.

I’m sure they didn’t much if any landscaping of the new airport, but the entrance should be lined with that type of tree.

Supposedly, the botanical gardens in SD has samples of every plant species native to the island, but I’m not sure if they have a few of this palm.

I think the heavy deforestation in other parts of Haiti have cause many trees that probably only existed there to go extinct. I have a feeling that wasn’t the only one that existed on that side alone.

 

[JD Jones]

I think you're talking about the Carossier Palm. (the things my ex taught me)

Had to look it up.

For those familiar with this palm, its name carries an air of mystery. With only about two dozen mature plants remaining in the wild, it is one of the worlds rarest palms, critically endangered and under immediate threat of extinction. Its native range in Haiti on the Island of Hispanola in the Caribbean, where it once grew in dry tropical lowland forest, has been reduced to a few river valleys on the southwestern peninsula of the country. Its usefulness seems to be its curse. The the seeds are edible, very tasty and rich in oil, the durable trunks useful for construction. Clearing land for agriculture with a slash-and-burn tactic has degraded most of its habitat and livestock prevents most regeneration. Political unrest and economic turmoil in Haiti have not exactly aided the various conservation efforts underway since the 1980's. Botanically, Attalea crassispatha is most interesting because of its unusual distribution. While all other species in the genus Attalea are restricted to Central and South America, it is the only one native to the Caribbean and has probably been isolated for a very long time. With its robust, smooth trunk and large, spreading crown of flat, dark green leaves it can easily be mistaken for a coconut palm, were it not for the curious, short inflorescences that hold many peach-pit-sized seeds crowded close together. Overall it most closely resembles the genus Beccariophoenix native to Madagascar.

https://www.rarepalmseeds.com/attalea-crassispatha

 

[JD Jones]

Haitians arriving home:

https://x.com/i/status/1902375433158697372

 

[Joseph NY2STI]

Haitians arriving home:

https://x.com/i/status/1902375433158697372

The memes in the comments section are hysterical.