Dean of the Saint-Marc Court Says Government Commissioners’ Strike Must End

Exumé Fleurimond, dean of the Court of First Instance of Saint-Marc, met with the press on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, regarding the “indefinite strike” by government commissioners, whose immediate consequences on Haiti’s judicial system have been disastrous. Standing magistrates from the country’s eighteen jurisdictions and five courts of appeal have stopped working since Monday, November 17, 2025, to demand “better working conditions and social benefits.”

Three months later, the administr