by Ketlain Difficile https://haitiantimes.com/author/ketlain/
L-R: Lawyer Micardo Vréus, businessman Michel Saint-Croix and nurse Edline Jean swear in at the Court of First Instance in Cap-Haïtien, Friday, May 22, 2026. Photo by Ketlain Difficile for The Haitian Times
Overview:
Former Cap-Haïtien Mayor Michel Saint-Croix has returned to lead the city after 15 years, heading a new interim municipal commission tasked with addressing worsening sanitation problems, flooding risks and deteriorating infrastructure. His appointment follows months of public frustration, protests over waste management and another reshuffling of local leadership in Haiti’s second-largest city.
CAP-HAÏTIEN — Ex-Mayor Michel Saint-Croix officially returned to lead Cap-Haïtien on Friday, inheriting a city mired in worsening sanitation problems, deteriorating infrastructure and growing public frustration over living conditions in Haiti’s second-largest municipality.
Saint-Croix, a businessman and founder of Rescue Training School (EFOSA), now heads a three-member interim municipal commission alongside nurse Edline Jean and lawyer-political activist Micardo Vréus. The group replaces the outgoing commission led by Angeline “Angie” Bell, whose roughly eight-month tenure coincided with mounting criticism over garbage accumulation, flooding risks and deteriorating roads across the northern city.
