six months after pledging support to the Kenyan Le mission in Haiti Jamaica is sending a first wave of troops the Jamaican president announced that only 24 military and police Personnel would land in Haiti on Thursday and lay the groundwork for further deployments Haiti is the example of what could happen if states do not take the problem seriously and put in place the measures and resources is necessary to bring the problem under control in March Jamaica formerly pledged 200 Personnel for the unbacked mission but the deployment has faced setbacks it's led by Kenya which so far has sent 400 police officers out of a total pledge of a thousand working with Haitian police the Kenyan officers are working towards taking back key SES that have fallen under the control of gangs including the airports and sea ports but almost 3 months into the mission the security situation has little improved gangs are in control of 80% of the capital with violence having spread to other areas across the country the UN says more than 3,000 people have been killed from January to May and the crisis has left more than half a million people homeless part of the problem is funding the international mission is expected to cost around $600 million per year but only 85 million have been pledged by country so far on a visit to Haiti last week Secretary of State Anthony blinkin urged other countries to provide more financial support and called for transitional authorities to move quickly towards Democratic elections