Part of ONA's Central Office Set Ablaze by Bandits

Members of the criminal coalition "VIV ANSANM" set fire to part of the central office of the National Old Age Insurance Office (ONA) at the airport intersection on the evening of Saturday, March 1, 2025. The information was confirmed by ONA's Deputy Director General, Me D’johnson Absolus.

Speaking on Radio Caraïbes' morning show, Me Absolus specified that the bandits threw Molotov cocktails at the building. The security guards, powerless against the armed bandits' assaults, disengaged from their posts, explained the institution's Deputy Director General.

The social and inspection services, among others, went up in smoke, he continued, specifying that the criminals forcibly opened the barrier, entered the office premises, and then set the building on fire.

Mr. Absolus stated that some documents had been moved by the new administration and are recorded, while others that were not burned are still in the office. In this regard, he issued an urgent appeal to police authorities to help the administration move the remaining documents due to the deteriorating security situation in the area.

Since the end of February, there has been a dramatic surge in gang activity in Port-au-Prince. These gangs have murdered several residents and burned hundreds of homes. Their new deadly attacks have led to the forced displacement of nearly 13,000 people in several neighborhoods of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, including Delmas 30, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).