Events in the year 2020 in Haiti.

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

Jovenel Moïse Jovenel Moïse (; ; 26 June 1968 – 7 July 2021) was a Haitian entrepreneur and politician, who served as the 43rd President of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021. He was sworn in as president in February 2017 after winning the ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

: Fritz-William Michel (acting)

Events

February

*February 13 – Fifteen children die in a fire in an orphanage in

Kenscoff Kenscoff ( ht, Kenskòf) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti, located in the foothills of the Chaîne de la Selle mountain range, some 10 kilometres to the southeast of the capital city of Port- ...

Port-au-Prince Arrondissement Port-au-Prince ( ht, Pòtoprens) is an Arrondissements of Haiti, arrondissement in the Ouest (department), Ouest Departments of Haiti, department of Haiti. It had 2,109,516 inhabitants at the 2003 Census which was estimated to have risen to 2,759, ...

, Ouest Department. *February 23 – Police in Port-au-Prince violently protest against money being spent on a '' carnaval'' celebrations instead of their salaries.

April

*April 6 – Haiti has community transmission of the coronavirus. *April 9 – Many Haitians flee the Dominican Republic due to concerns about the

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. *April 13 – A historical landmark church inside Haiti's

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World Heritage site, Our Lady of the

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Church in Milot, is destroyed in a fire. *April 20 – Haiti reopens factories; the country reports 40 COVID-19 cases and three deaths. *April 21 – Haiti and

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have detected coronavirus infections among migrants deported recently from the United States.

May

*May 8 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti calls for immediate action to address health and humanitarian needs, alongside ongoing efforts to promote sustainable development and resilience to future shocks. The organization warns that the COVID-19 pandemic may increase poverty in a country where four million people need urgent food assistance, and at least one million are suffering from severe hunger. Haiti has 101 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 12 deaths, and it still suffers from the

2010s Haiti cholera outbreak The 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak is the first modern large-scale outbreak of cholera—a disease once considered beaten back largely due to the invention of modern sanitation. The disease was reintroduced to Haiti in October 2010, not long after ...

June

*June 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: The government says the virus has peaked in Haiti. 4,309 people have been infected and 73 have died since March 19 when the virus was first detected.

July

*July 13 – COVID-19 pandemic: A report by ''

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'' and the Marshall Project indicates that

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration tha ...

(ICE) worsened the spread of the pandemic by deporting sick people to their countries of origin, including Haiti.

August

*August 23 – A ten-year-old girl is killed in Haiti by

Hurricane Laura Hurricane Laura was a deadly and destructive Category 4 hurricane that is tied with the 1856 Last Island hurricane and 2021's Hurricane Ida as the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as measu ...

. *August 26 – The number of deaths from Hurricane Laura increases to 21.

October

October 17 – 214th anniversary of the Death of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Public holiday)Haiti Public Holidays 2020
retrieved 27 Feb 2020

November

*November 1 –

All Saints Day All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the church, whether they are kno ...

(Public and Roman Catholic holiday) *November 1 and 2 – Fet Gede (Voodoo holiday) *November 2

All Souls' Day All Souls' Day, also called ''The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed'', is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by certain Christian denominations on 2 November. Through prayer, intercessions, alms and ...

(Public Roman Catholic holiday) *November 13 – Haiti faces a fuel shortage in dispute between the government and its latest supplier of fuel, Preble-Rish. *November 18 – 217th anniversary of the

Battle of Vertières The Battle of Vertières ( ht, Batay Vètyè) was the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, and the final part of the Revolution under Jean Jacques Dessalines. It was fought on 18 November 1803 between the indigenous Haitian army and Na ...

(Public holiday)

December

*December 10 – Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, 34, a U.S. Marine, is found guilty of smuggling guns from North Carolina to Haiti in 2019 in an attempt to establish himself as Haitian president. *December 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: Scientists are flummoxed by Haiti's relatively low number (9,588 confirmed cases) of COVID-19 infections. A feared second wave seems to be fueled by immigration from

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and the Dominican Republic.

Deaths

*January 14 –

Bernard Diederich Bernard Diederich (18 July 1926 – 14 January 2020) was a New Zealand-born author, journalist, and historian. Diederich was born into an Irish-German family in Christchurch, where his father was a barman at the Empire Hotel. The family moved to r ...

, journalist, author and historian (b. 1926). *January 24 – Georges Castera, poet and writer (b. 1936). *April 17 – Annette Auguste, folk singer and activist (b. 1940 or 1941). *August 14 –

Ernst Jean-Joseph Ernst Jean-Joseph (11 June 1948 – 14 August 2020) was a Haitian football midfielder who played for Haiti in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He played for Violette A.C. and briefly for Chicago Sting. In the summer of 1976, he played in the Nati ...

, football player and manager (b. 1948). *August 28 – Stanley Gaston, lawyer.

References

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