In accordance with the decision of the CARICOM Heads of Government at their 44th Ordinary Meeting in Nassau, Bahamas https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38886-haiti-flash-caricom-members-exclude-sending-troops-to-haiti.html , a CARICOM special mission visited Haiti on February 27, 2023 for a one-day working visit.

The mission, led by the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, met with Prime Minister a.i. Ariel Henry https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38955-haiti-crisis-the-caricom-delegation-met-the-pm.html Frantz Elbé, Acting Director General of the National Police of Haiti and various stakeholders, including representatives of the High Council of Transition https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38791-haiti-flash-installation-of-the-hct-speech-by-mirlande-manigat-and-pm-henry-video.html , political parties, civil society, religious groups and the private sector.

This mission was the first opportunity for CARICOM officials to observe the situation on the ground and directly engage stakeholders in the continued search for a solution to the current situation in Haiti. The complex socio-economic and political challenge is characterized by protracted instability and destabilizing gang violence.

The delegation included representatives from the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the CARICOM Crime and Security Implementing Agency and the CARICOM Secretariat. It included the Honorable Kamina Johnson-Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, Wayne Munroe Minister of National Security of the Bahamas and his colleague Keith Bell Minister of Labor and Immigration, the High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago in Canada Dennis Moses, the Executive Director of CARICOM IMPACS, Lt. Col. Michael Jones and the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Secretary General of CARICOM, Tres-Ann Kremer.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38955-haiti-crisis-the-caricom-delegation-met-the-pm.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38886-haiti-flash-caricom-members-exclude-sending-troops-to-haiti.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38791-haiti-flash-installation-of-the-hct-speech-by-mirlande-manigat-and-pm-henry-video.html

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