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The Association of Caribbean Media workers is calling on Haitian authorities to move swiftly to bring the killers of Jean-Rémy Badio to justice

The ACM has also urged the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to better embrace Haiti into it’s fold. Badio was a freelance journalist and photographer and member of SOS Journalistes with which the ACM has communicated in the recent past. He was shot to death at his home on January 19. Badio was well known for reports on the operations of organised gangs in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Martissant.

ACM said that the killing suggested that changes in political administration in Haiti have not served to reverse a tendency by criminal elements with political agendas to target journalists and media workers.

“We are concerned that this specific feature of the Haitian landscape has not been suitably addressed by the country’s CARICOM allies,” ACM said.

Published: 13 February 2007
Issue: 1256