Haiti received a Caricom special mission visited on 27 February 2023 for a one-day working visit. Haiti is a member of Caricom.
Haiti Libre reports that Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness led the Caricom high-level mission. They met with Prime Minister Ariel Henry and Frantz Elbe, acting director of the National Police of Haiti and members of the High Council of Transition, political parties, civil society, religious groups and the private sector.
The visit had been agreed during the 44th Ordinary Meeting held in Nassau, Bahamas. Bahamas and St. Turks & Caicos urge actions to reduce undocumented immigration from Haiti.
Haiti Libre reports that the 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.
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Haiti Libre
2 March 2023