Private Security Firm Hired, Confirms Fritz Alphonse Jean

The President of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), Fritz Alphonse Jean, confirmed and justified that the government and the Council had hired a private security firm — which is not Blackwater — to support the Haitian security forces. However, he neither confirmed nor denied that the value of the contract is $44 million, as has been suggested.

“The contract was not discussed in the Council of Ministers. It’s the CSPN and the Prime Minister who are handling this matter,” he said during an inte