The funeral of journalist Éline Médastin, the legendary voice of “Alo lapolis,” was held this Friday, May 15, 2026, at the White-Rock Baptist Church in Saint-Marc. Municipal authorities, religious ministers, local figures, institutional executives, and delegations of schoolchildren and university students joined the relatives and friends of the deceased to pay her a vibrant and moving final tribute.
The master of ceremonies, Dr. Astrel Céus, presented Éline Médastin as a woman of conviction, a committed teacher, an educator passionate about transmitting knowledge and values, and a woman involved in several groups and associations in the city, always ready to serve, support, defend, and encourage.
Éline Médastin’s eldest daughter, Rose Mildred Joseph, praised her mother during the biography reading for the close friendship she maintained with her children, her sustained attention, excellent discipline, and total support. “She was a loving mother and, at the same time, a responsible father. Despite her own setbacks, she always put others before herself.” For the Haitian National Police, which she served for about twenty years, Éline Médastin was “a remarkable woman, an esteemed colleague, a sister at heart,” according to Municipal Commissioner Gino Chéry. He explained that “her slogan ‘Anba kòd’ [Under arrest], which she pronounced with confidence and which still resonates in people’s memories, went beyond the words themselves and created a closeness between the police and the population. It is the very ring that seals the marriage between the police and the public.”
Delivering the sermon, the Reverend Pastor Ronald Rodné, president of the Pastors’ League of Saint-Marc, drawing inspiration from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, invited the audience to “renounce the futilities and vanities of this world to seek the essentials of life.” In his homily, he insisted on the need to forgive, serve, help, and love instead of taking pride in vain.
The Association of Women Lawyers of Lower Artibonite (AFABA), the Federation of Women of Artibonite (FEFBA), the Union of Journalists of Lower Artibonite (UJBA), the Frère Hervé School, the Jean Calvin School, the Lumière College, the American University of Modern Sciences of Haiti (UNASMOH), LG Tech, and the Logos Library are some of the institutions that bore witness to the socio-educational work of Mrs. Éline Médastin, who served as a French and citizenship education teacher.
Under the direction of maestro Israël Pierre, the Eval Manigat Academy Band led the large and diverse funeral procession to the city’s main cemetery. The crowd of sympathizers and thousands of onlookers said their final goodbyes to Éline Médastin, popularly nicknamed “Anba kòd.”
