Unconfirmed Report of Two Bahamians Dead and Confirmation of One Bahamian in Custody in Haiti

UPDATE: 16TH July 2025, 6:40pm. Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received queries as to the matter of the deaths and missing persons in Haiti.

Officials of the Ministry still await the formal notification from the Haitian Government as to what transpired on Sunday 13 July 2025.

We will not issue a formal statement until the Ministry has been provided with an official account of what transpired by Haitian authorities. We are in touch with the authorities and are pressing them to respond.

Our representative in Haiti is continuing to follow up.

We are in touch with the family members.

They are aware of the current state of information.

The families have been offered consular assistance and this will continue.

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13TH July 2025, 9:25 pm. Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas

The Ministry has received, via our Embassy in Port au Prince unconfirmed reports that two Bahamians were killed in Haiti. The report from Île de la Tortue today is that three Bahamian males and a Jamaican male, while on a speed boat, were shot at by unknown persons, which resulted in two of the males being killed and another hospitalized. One male remains unaccounted for.

The Brigade de Lutte contre le Trafic de Stupéfiants (BLTS), which is the counternarcotics unit of the Haitian National Police (HNP) has confirmed that today, July 13th, 2025, “under the leadership of Acting Superintendent Jeir Pierre, the Port-de-Paix police and prosecutor’s office intercepted a rowboat heavily laden with drugs. The result: two Jamaicans drowned, one body in the morgue, and a Bahamian in custody. The BLTS seized more than 90 kg of cocaine. Several other suspicious boats are believed to be still at large. A first in the history of the Northwest.”

The Ministry is communicating with the official and relevant authorities in Haiti and will continue to monitor and provide updated information.