Haiti
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CARICOM Congratulates Haiti on Independence Anniversary
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has congratulated Haiti on its Two Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of Independence which it celebrates on 1 January 2024. Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett sent the following congratulatory message to the Prime Minister of Haiti, H.E. Dr Ariel Henry: Honourable Prime Minister, the Caribbean Community congratulates the Republic of Haiti on the occasion of the Two Hundred…
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CARICOM Eminent Persons Group Returns To Haiti
The CARICOM Eminent Persons Group has returned to Haiti to facilitate negotiations on a Framework Agreement intended to provide a transitional governance arrangement to take the troubled country to free and fair elections. After more than five months of consultations with the Eminent Persons Group, a wide cross section of Haitian Stakeholders today [8 December 2023] began negotiations on the…
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STATEMENT – Eminent Persons Group Following Third Facilitation Visit to Haiti
Haiti continues to hurt. The cycle of depredations and violence of the armed gangs continues, expanding to new areas and adding to the already high number of victims. The political actors, fully aware of this dire reality, continue their zero-sum approach to the efforts to reach an agreement that would bring an end to the protracted political deadlock, opening the…
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Remarks By Dr. Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for the Opening Ceremony of the Accra Reparations Conference, 14 November 2023
Excellencies; Distinguished Participants and Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. I am pleased to join the Accra Reparations Conference and bring warm and fraternal greetings from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), through this message. This is an important gathering of policymakers, reparations advocates, experts and civil society activists from Africa, CARICOM and the wider African diaspora to advance the agenda for reparatory justice.…
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Statement by the Eminent Persons Group on its September Visit to Haiti
The Eminent Persons Group (EPG), comprising former Prime Ministers Dr Kenny D. Anthony of Saint Lucia, Bruce Golding of Jamaica and Perry Christie of The Bahamas, was encouraged by the positive steps made in previous meetings with the Haitian stakeholders in Jamaica in June and in Haiti in July and by the outcome of informal discussions among the stakeholders which…
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STATEMENT – CARICOM Eminent Persons Group Recent Activities
At the end of their visit to Haiti on 12-15 July 2023 to facilitate inter-Haitian dialogue in the search for a solution to the political crisis, the CARICOM Eminent Persons Group (EPG) had called on the various groups of stakeholders with which it had been engaging to pursue discussions with each other, formally or informally. These discussions could help to…
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Statement on Multi-National Force to support Haiti
The Caribbean Community welcomes the decision taken by the Governments of The Bahamas and Jamaica to join Kenya to contribute to a multi-national force in the Republic of Haiti to assist that nation to counter its security challenges. The Caribbean Community hopes that the establishment of the multi-national force will be given full endorsement by the United Nations Security Council…
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Statement from the Meeting of the CARICOM Eminent Persons Group with Haitian Stakeholders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12-15 July 2023
The CARICOM Eminent Persons Group (EPG) visited Haiti on 12-15 July 2023, as agreed at the end of the meeting of Haitian stakeholders in Jamaica on 11-13 June 2023, to continue its facilitation of inter-Haitian dialogue by building on the outcome of the Jamaica meeting. Emphasis was placed on the major proposals tabled in Jamaica. These included the commitments made…
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Arrival Statement – CARICOM Eminent Persons Group in Haiti
The CARICOM Eminent Persons Groups (EPG) has arrived in Haiti today, Wednesday 12 July on a follow-up mission to the Stakeholders Meeting held in Jamaica last June. The EPG comprising Former Prime Ministers Honourable Kenny Anthony of Saint Lucia( fifth from left), Rt Honourable Perry Christie of The Bahamas (fourth from left) and Honourable Bruce Golding of Jamaica (third from…
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CARICOM Statement on the violent attack on building housing Jamaica’s Consulate in Haiti
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) notes with deep concern the report that the Sun Auto Car Dealership in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, owned and operated by the Honorary Consul for our Member State, Jamaica, and which houses the Consulate, was set ablaze and ransacked by criminal gangs on Monday 12 June 2023. This act of violence has sadly caused the indefinite suspension of…
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