Israel Jacky Cantave, 28, finished his evening newscast at 10 p.m. Monday (0300
                 GMT Tuesday), telephoned his wife to say he was on the way home and left the
                 Radio Caraibes station with his cousin Frantz Ambroise, said Guyler Delva,
                 president of the Haitian Association of Journalists.

                 Both men have disappeared.

                 Radio Caraibes reported Tuesday morning that Cantave's car was found near his
                 home in suburban Delmas. His cellular phone was in the car; the door on the
                 driver's side was dented, causing speculation he had been pursued and bumped by
                 another vehicle.

                 Cantave told colleagues Monday morning he had received another in a long series of
                 telephone death threats.

                 "You're going to lose your life over this," the voice said.

                 Cantave, who has a law degree, was recently investigating the often bloody gang
                 rivalries among Aristide partisans in the seaside slums of Cite Soleil and La Saline,
                 which border the capital.

                 The government is investigating Cantave's disappearance, said Information
                 Under-Secretary Mario Dupuy.

                 "We have mobilized the police and judicial system and will do everything we can to
                 get to the bottom of Cantave's disappearance," he said.

                 Radio Caraibes has been singled out before by Aristide partisans for political
                 reasons.

                 On December 17, when an armed commando attacked the National Palace in what
                 Aristide called an attempt to assassinate him, rampaging Aristide partisans burned
                 down opposition headquarters and threatened at least a dozen journalists. The
                 opposition said the attack was staged as a pretext to clamp down on dissent.

                 After the attack, 15 journalists fled Haiti fearing for their lives. They included four
                 members of Radio Caraibes.

                 "Freedom of the press is under fire in Haiti," Delva said.

                 This year, about 20 incidents of government supporters harassing journalists have
                 been reported, he said.

                 No journalists, however, have been kidnapped.

                 In May, the France-based media freedom group Reporters Without Borders put
                 Aristide on its blacklist of media predators, charging he had blocked the
                 investigation of the April 3, 2000, murder of journalist Jean Dominique.

                 Dupuy denied that the government was persecuting journalists.

                  Copyright 2002 The Associated Press.