Antonio Jules, the Departmental Delegate of the North announced that a census of people living in the hills and in some peripheral areas of the city of Cap-Haitien, will soon be carried out in the perception of demolition in these areas of small houses built outside of all standards.

According to Delegate Jules, this measure, in addition to protecting citizens from the poor sanitary conditions in which they live, is part of the alleviation of evel of risk of major natural hazards that threaten the northern region and endangers thousands of lives in the event of a disaster. In addition, he deplored the fact that municipal politicians granted building permits a little too easily in these risky areas, poor in public services.

Threatened at term by expulsion, hundreds of vulnerable families living in these shanty towns, particularly in the morne Labori, Barrière Bouteille and Sainte Philomène, are wondering where they will live in the absence of information from the Government on their relocation. Some are hoping for a review of this decision pending information on aid programs and places to receive future displaced populations, others simply question the application of this announcement, which periodically each year, without anything ever being done.

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