Haiti’s troubled government is accusing Canada of stalling in its promised delivery of armoured vehicles, and argues the delay is hindering a plan to clear violent gangs from Port-au-Prince.
Yet the Toronto company making the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles says it’s working as fast it can in the face of supply-chain disruptions and mistakes by Haitian officials.
In a Monday interview with Haitian radio, the country’s acting justice minister, Emmelie Prophète-Milcé, said in French that the majority of the 18 armoured vehicles her country ordered had yet to arrive.
“The supplier did not keep its word,” Prophète-Milcé alleged….