Haiti
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BAHAMAS SUSPENDS REPATRIATION OF ILLEGAL HAITIAN NATIONALS, ORDERS RELEASE OF DETAINED HAITIAN IMMIG
NASSAU, Bahamas – The Government has ordered the release of illegal Haitian immigrants detained at the country’s Detention Centre, and has suspended the repatriation of illegal Haitian nationals, due to conditions in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham advised Thursday night. Mr. Ingraham said: “The Department of Immigration will release from the Detention Centre those Haitians who…
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN LEADS TEAM TO HAITI ON FRIDAY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deeply distressed and shocked by the enormous loss of life and devastation wrought on its Member State, Haiti and in particular the capital, Port-au-Prince, by the powerful earthquake of Tuesday 12 January 2010. This latest setback to the development of the country will truly test the resilience of the…
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CARICOM MESSAGE ON HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is distressed at the initial reports coming out of Haiti in the wake of the destruction wrought by the series of earthquakes which struck its Member State on Tuesday. As it continues to monitor the situation closely, CARICOM will move quickly to mobilize its disaster emergency response systems in order…
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CARICOM observers for Haiti elections
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A six member team from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will travel to Haiti on Saturday 4th February, to observe the first round of next Tuesday’s presidential and legislative elections. The team will be headed by Jamaica’s former Director of Elections, Mr. Noel Lee, and will include observers from other Member States. CARICOM’s spokesman on…
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CARICOM ATTENDS DONOR CONFERENCE ON HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite and Assistant Secretary-General Foreign and Community Relations, Ambassador Colin Granderson will participate in the International Conference for the Economic and Social Development of Haiti in Madrid, Spain, from 29-30 November 2006. The Conference brings together representatives of the Government of Haiti and the international…
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CARICOM PRIME MINISTERIAL MISSION TO HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On Wednesday 18 October, 2006, Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, will lead a Prime Ministerial mission on a one-day visit to Haiti, in fulfillment of a decision made by the Heads of Government at their Twenty-Seventh Regular…
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CDB, Petroleum Fund Assistance for Haiti’s Recovery
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will contribute US$17 million towards Haiti’s social and economic recovery in keeping with the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) commitment to assisting that Member State in its reconstruction process. At a Donor Community Meeting specially convened by the President of Haiti, H.E. Rene Preval, on Tuesday 25 July in Haiti, CARICOM’s Assistant…
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DOMINICA PRIME MINISTER URGES SUPPORT FOR HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haiti’s development will depend largely on the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) institutional support. This was view of Prime Minister of Dominica, Hon. Roosevelt Skerritt, who briefed the media on Monday 26 June at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana during a visit to the Secretariat’s headquarters. The Prime Minister of Dominica, who held earlier meetings…
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PRESIDENT PREVAL DELIGHTED AT HAITI’S RETURN
His Excellency Rene Garcia Preval, the President of Haiti, expressed his great delight at his country’s resumption of formal arrangements with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The President was speaking during a meeting with CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday 23 June. The Secretary-General, accompanied by the Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations, Ambassador Colin…
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CARICOM Chairman Congratulates Haiti’s President-Elect
March 15th, 2006 His Excellency René Préval President-Elect Haiti Dear President-Elect, On behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and further to the Community’s statement of 18 February 2006 in reaction to the notification of the official results of the presidential elections, I have the honour and the pleasure to congratulate you on your victory following the first round of the…
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