A prominent banker who was credited with modernising Haiti's banking system was fatally shot in his home, police said.

A SPOKESMAN for Wyclef Jean says the hip-hop star has been released from a hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to his hand.

A judge will decide whether former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will be tried on charges that include corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before he was deposed in 1986.

GUNMEN opened fire on an opposition rally in Haiti yesterday, killing at least six people, including a journalist, and wounding 34 more, as Haitians awaited the naming of a government.