Labor Day in Haiti with repeated demands from workers

The anniversary has become a day of repeated reflections and demands by those who daily strive to bring home bread.

The Professional Syndicate for Private Schools has been denouncing for some time the state of ruin and deterioration that the institutions are suffering from.

They criticized the loss of the right to life and freedom of movement and other reasons that encourage young people to flee their homeland in search of better living conditions in other regions.

Public and private schools in Haiti are suffering greatly, and the reality on campuses is bleak, due to uncertainty, anxiety, frustration, pain and even sadness, a statement issued here confirms.

There are difficulties in teaching quietly, retaining teachers, paying them appropriately, and meeting multiple commitments.

Haitian teachers asked for worthwhile actions such as: using resources to help schools in poor financial standing, canceling school debts with tax authorities, and granting secular schools a five-year moratorium.

The head of the Haitian General Hospital Health Workers Union, Evelyn Frémont, asked the gangs to establish a truce for the benefit of the patients.

Health workers are also facing difficulty in reaching their jobs due to exchanges of gunfire between armed gangs.

The Haitian Doctors Association called for respecting the right to health and violating it by closing government and private hospitals due to the increasing wave of violence taking place in the Caribbean country.

The Haitian National Police Union requested urgent means to stop the expansion of the gangs that already control 80 percent of the capital.

This union emphasizes that for law enforcement at this time against criminal gangs it is necessary to have heavy equipment, weapons, ammunition, bulletproof vests and ballistic helmets.

Mim/Joe