DOMINICA'S PRIME MINISTER ADVOCATES TALKING TO HAITIAN GANG LEADERS in an attempt to solve the security and political crisis there. | WPG10

A federal grand jury has indicted one of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders and a US citizen accused of conspiring with him to violate US sanctions and fund gang activities in the Caribbean country. Jimmy Chérizier, best known as "Barbecue" is a former police officer who leads a group called Viv Ansanm, an alliance of gangs that controls the vast majority of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. US prosecutors have offered up to US$5 million ($7.6 million) for information leading to his arrest or

NEW YORK — Haitian community leaders in New York are calling on the United States to intervene, as violence escalates in the country. They were joined by Mayor Eric Adams and Rev. Al Sharpton at a rally Wednesday at City Hall. They discussed the ongoing crisis in Haiti, where gang violence has thrown the nation into turmoil as armed groups battle for territory. More than 362,000 people have been internally displaced, and 2 in 3 children are in need of urgent assistance, according to the United N