Garry Conille will assume responsibility for running Haiti. PHOTO COURTESY OF X.COM

Miami – U.N. development specialist Carry Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister after a ninemember transitional council chose him to lead the troubled Caribbean island, according to the Associated Press.

The vote took place on May 28 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Now the work begins for Conille and the council to quell gang violence and bring the island back under government control.

"Together, we will work for a better tomorrow for all the children of our nation," he wrote on X, the social media platform, in Haitian Creole.

Conille resigned as UNICEF’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, a post he has held since 2023, and previously served as prime minister of Haiti from October 2011 to May 2012 under then-President Michel Martelly.

According to his profile, Conille studied medicine and public health and helped develop health care in impoverished communities in Haiti. He helped coordinate reconstruction efforts after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed over 2,200 people, destroyed 130,000 homes and caused about $9 billion in damages.

Since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, armed gang members have allegedly been responsible for thousands of deaths, sieged police stations, burned down hospitals, shut down airports and cut off medical, water and food supplies.

When armed gang members took over the capital Port-au Prince and other cities in the Caribbean nation, Haiti was still rebuilding from the devastating earthquake.