Haitians living in the Dominican Republic held another demonstration outside their embassy in Santo Domingo on Tuesday 24 February 2015, protesting at the lack of support from the Haitian government in issuing documents that would enable them to regularize their status in the Dominican Republic under the National Foreigner Legalization Plan that expires on 15 June 2015. The protestors outside the Embassy said that Ambassador Fritz Cineas was blocking the process for people seeking to regularize their status. He was appointed to the post in 2005.
As reported in Haiti Libre, on Wednesday, 25 February 2015, Haitian authorities announced that Fritz Cineas was being removed from his post. The newspaper mentioned the handling of the murder of Jean Harry (aka Tulile) and the delays in issuing documentation as the two reasons for the decision.
As reported in Acento.com.do, Cineas will be replaced by Daniel Supplice, a close aide of President Michel Martelly, who had been appointed to the post in March 2013 but the Senate never approved the nomination. Now that Martelly is ruling by decree, after legislative elections have been continually postponed, Supplice was appointed to the post. Supplice is known to have held diplomatic posts during the Francois and Jean Claude Duvalier regimes. Cineas served as ambassador in the Dominican Republic for the past eight years.
Haitian protestors in Santo Domingo complained that despite the fact that the Haitian authorities had agreed to charge RD$1,000 for issuing the documents such as birth certificates, they were being charged RD$4,000 and more. The Haitians also protested that their government only has one documentation center in the Dominican Republic, despite the fact that thousands of people needed their services. Around 150,000 foreigners have already applied for the Foreigner Legalization Plan, but the completion of the process depends on the documentation that their government needs to provide.
Renuncia embajador de Haití en RD y designan a Daniel Supplice
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