Haiti’s Transitional Council Honors the Memory of Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Unable to go to Pont-Rouge or the MUPANAH (at Champ de Mars) to lay wreaths of flowers, the CPT members paid tribute to the founding father of the nation—assassinated on October 17, 1806—at the Villa d’Accueil instead. The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, Acting Director General of the Haitian National Police (PNH) Vladimir Paraison, President of the Supreme Court Jean Joseph Lebrun, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Haiti Lieutenant Derby Guerrier, members of the CPT, among othe