Haiti’s transitional council names new PM amid hopes of quelling violence

Haiti has been hit by gang violence (Ramon Espinosa/AP)

Haiti’s newly installed transitional council has chosen former sports minister Fritz Belizaire as the country’s prime minister as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence.

Mr Belizaire replaces Michel Patrick Boisvert, the former minister of economy and finance who was the current interim prime minister.