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As a consequence of persistent insecurity, Haiti’s authorities commemorated the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières removed from its historic web site within the North. The President of the Presidential Transition Council, Laurent Saint-Cyr, and Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé joined different officers, police and cultural teams to honor the Heroes of Independence and to emphasise that the battle towards insecurity and armed gangs is the nation’s “new battle.”
PORT AU PRINCE — Pressured to commemorate Haiti’s historic Battaille de Vertières underneath heavy safety in Haiti’s violence-plagued capital, state officers vowed to win the ‘new battle’ they are saying the nation faces: its violent armed gangs. Talking in the course of the battle’s 222nd commemoration ceremony at Villa D’Acceuil on November 18th, the day revolutionaries decisively beat again the French to free itself from colonial rule, the Haitian officers additionally declared that Haiti shall be victorious – as soon as once more.
“At present, the nation’s enemy has modified faces,” mentioned Laurent Saint-Cyr, president of the Presidential Transition Council (CPT), the physique tasked with ruling Haiti quickly.
“The system attempting to strip us of our humanity now consists of armed males linked to transnational felony networks in search of to destabilize the nation,” he mentioned. “The state will proceed to strengthen the Military and Police to win this battle.”
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CPT President Laurent Saint-Cyr delivers his speech in the course of the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières, a historic day for Haitians, on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Picture by Arnold Junior Pierre/The Haitian Occasions
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Haitian Armed Forces members salute representatives of the Presidential Transition Council (CPT) and different state leaders in the course of the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières at Villa d’Accueil on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Picture by Arnold Junior Pierre/The Haitian Occasions
Saint-Cyr was talking throughout a muted occasion held after CPT members visited MUPANAH to put a wreath on the foot of Capois-La-Mort, a monument of the revolutionary hero symbolizing the braveness and resistance that marked Haiti’s independence. Throughout the solemn speech, he honored the reminiscence of the ancestors who fought within the Battle of Vertières to interrupt the chains of enslavement—earnign Haiti the excellence of being the First Unbiased Black Republic.
“The military that I’ve the glory of main isn’t an auxiliary power. It’s the expression of the Haitian individuals’s will to face robust.”
Normal Derby Guerrier, Haitian Armed Forces
Like Saint-Cyr, the Commander-in-Chief of the Haitian Armed Forces (FADH) additionally emphasised the ethical duty of the establishment at this vital second in nationwide historical past.
“The military I’ve the glory of main isn’t an auxiliary power,” the commander, Normal Derby Guerrier, declared. “It’s the expression of the Haitian individuals’s will to face robust. Every individual’s struggling is a name to motion.”
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A neighborhood cultural group reenacts a procession in the course of the commemoration of the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières on the Villa d’Accueil on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Picture by Arnold Junior Pierre/The Haitian Occasions -
Houngan Asogwe Erol Josué (holding microphone), director of the Nationwide Bureau of Ethnology, and his cultural group ship an inventive efficiency in the course of the commemoration of the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières on the Villa d’Accueil on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Picture by Arnold Junior Pierre/The Haitian Occasions -
The cultural group delivers an inventive efficiency in the course of the commemoration of the 222nd anniversary of the Battle of Vertières on the Villa d’Accueil on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Picture by Arnold Junior Pierre/The Haitian Occasions
Haiti faces ever-persistent violence, a slew of socio-economic and humanitarian crises and absence of a functioning authorities. Tuesday’s commemoration of Vertières, compelled to be held removed from that battle’s historic web site within the North attributable to safety considerations, was muted, it nonetheless served as a reminder of a rustic that also seeks to reconnect with the spirit of resistance and unity that formed its start.
Along with Saint-Cyr, current have been Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and CPT members, representatives of the diplomatic corps, the highest command of the FADH and Haitian Nationwide Police (PNH) and Houngan Asogwe Erol Josué, director of the National Bureau of Ethnology.