At an event in Little Haiti’s Caribbean Marketplace in early January to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the earthquake that struck Haiti, a long roster of local leaders, politicians and activists spoke to the crowded room. But one person who did not speak was the host of the event — the director of the Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Dasha Saintremy.
Attendees, including news media, had expected to hear from Saintremy, who took over the job as director last year and is the fourth to lead the institution in only six years, but she didn’t even deliver a greeting to open the event.
Her hesitancy was warranted: Weeks earlier, Saintremy was reprimanded and later suspended without pay by the City of Miami Parks and Recreation Department for supposedly violating the city’s media relations policy, according to documents obtained by the Miami Herald…