All of today’s press report on President Jean Bertrand Aristide’s departure from Port-au-Prince yesterday morning aboard a jet bound for Antigua. After much speculation last night as to the Haitian leader’s exact whereabouts, the most recent reports confirm he arrived in the Central African Republic this morning. The chief justice of Haiti’s Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, will serve as the Haiti’s interim president. Several of Aristide’s ministers, senators and commissioners sought asylum at the Dominican embassy in the Haitian capital. The ministers of health and finance, two police commissioners, one of whom is Oriel Jean, the chief of the Presidential Guard, and Senator Milande Liberis Pavert were transported to the Dominican Republic in helicopters of the local air force and granted refuge in Santo Domingo. Several other police commissioners and officials of the Aristide government have also sought asylum, but their status was not know at the time of publication. Among those awaiting transfer to Dominican soil are a group of Taiwanese and several Dominican citizens. Canadian, French and United States evacuation aircraft are using the facilities at the Maria Montez Airport in Barahona to evacuate their citizens. El Caribe reports that the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to establish a multinational peace-keeping force in Haiti. US President George W. Bush sent 500 Marines to assist in restoring peace and order to the Haitian political turmoil. According to the paper, rebel leader Guy Philippe welcomed the arrival of the peacekeeping force and expressed a desire to collaborate with them in returning Haiti to stability.