in Haiti following days of violent
protests there Haitians are even calling
for President Roh Bernal moiez to step
down the Haitian president sat down with
my co-anchor Calvin Hughes and Calvin is
live in port-au-prince tonight with his
worldwide exclusive interview Calvin and
Laurie surprisingly the demonstrations
or manifestations were non-existent
today government officials say that
basically that the protests did not
happen they were virtually quiet today
on the streets of port-au-prince and
that's very different from what they had
to deal would say nine days ago nine
straight days of uprisings and protests
that turned violent and in many cases
they were deadly and then there was this
right here take a look here everyone
talking about this today five people
arrested Sunday night three Americans
one Haitian national once Serbian
national arrested with an arsenal of
weapons and ammunition these pictures
here are chilling and frightening and
there are so many questions about why
those men were here and what was their
mission as for president jovenel moise
he is facing a very difficult task today
of trying to get his country back on
track after only two years in office
each morning now there is mystery behind
every mountain in Haiti the country is
crawling back to normal
banks and businesses are back open and
some parts of port-au-prince people have
returned to the streets selling their
goods and the roads are once again
teeming with traffic back to back
national TV addresses from the prime
minister and president jovenel moise
possibly played a role we have to react
quickly to this crisis because it's a
multi-faceted crisis in his only
television interview since the crisis
president moiez tells me his immediate
plan is to cut the price of rice in half
making it more affordable he's promising
200,000 new manual labor jobs cleaning
streets and picking up trash and cutting
government corruption say deployment to
fight with corruption you have to have a
strong system a new government
investigation released last month says a
number of corrupt Haitian officials
squandered two billion dollars from an
energy program that subsidized oil from
Venezuela
it's what thousands of demonstrators
chanted for nine straight days as they
said parts of the city on fire where is
the money they said quote sure president
Moy says he's working on answers with
his Minister of Justice my executive
branch is doing everything it can to be
able to provide everything that's asked
for to be able to continue this
investigation and find out the truth
that the Haitian people deserve to hear
but for the opposition how long are they
willing to wait
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and joining me right now is our new
haitian bureau chief for local 10 News
frits the Amber Ville thank you so much
for being here and you know you had a
chance to actually be out there on the
streets and so what are people saying
out there well everybody's kind of
grateful that today things off
apparently started getting back to
normal
yeah but considering the contrast from
last week's event it's a bit of
disbelief but people are relieved that
the activities are starting back schools
are expected to reopen tomorrow they
were closed today they were closed today
yeah but people are careful but tomorrow
they expect it to reopen supermarkets
businesses everything is slowly
reopening the country seems to be going
back to a normal and and very quickly to
Fritz right there is a feeling that that
the streets could in fact be packed
again with demonstrators that sort of
the underlying feeling this is the
beauty about Haiti it's unpredictable
but let's stay positive if it stopped
there might be a consensus they might
have reached a consensus there might be
some Accords being negotiated so we're
hoping that things are gonna stay calm
for for for time to come
unpredictability that is to beauty of
Haiti and once again congratulations on
being the Haitian bureau chief here
local 2 News
oh absolutely we're going to be talking
with you a lot more in the future as
well and so coming up at 11 o'clock guys
we're gonna talk with a Coconut Creek
South Florida charity there that is
doing a lot of work here in Haiti and
they are calling this crisis the worst
since the earthquake that happened of
course nine years ago in 2010 but for
now live with Fritz the amber villa on
Calvin Hughes I send it back to you
understand our signal is going in and
out so we won't push it but we'll talk
with you more at 11:00 both of you thank
you Calvin