Saturday August 20, 2022, in Port-of-Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) on the sidelines of the Agri-Investment Forum which ended on Sunday August 21 and attended by Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry, https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37440-haiti-news-zapping.html , the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) held a special meeting on the situation in Haiti where crime and political instability seriously affect socio-economic development of the country. This meeting included in addition to the members of the Bureau of CARICOM, several Prime Ministers members of the community

Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who serves as the rotating President of CARICOM said the meeting provided regional leaders with an opportunity to discuss and brief Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, decisions taken at the CARICOM summit in Suriname last month.

He said that although a decision has been made for a technical mission led by CARICOM to go to Port-au-Prince https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37134-haiti-politic-caricom-will-send-a-delegation-to-haiti.html for interviews with all stakeholders, no date had yet been finalized, although Prime Minister Henry reiterated that he "wants CARICOM to be very involved."

Gonsalves said plans were also being made for a meeting to be held in Nassau, Bahamas after the technical mission to Haiti. This meeting should bring together stakeholders from Haiti, the African Union, French-speaking countries, as well as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Organization of American States (OAS)...

Gonsalves said CARICOM member countries "should do a lot of advocacy" with a number of stakeholders, including the United States, regarding the security situation in Haiti, while the region continues "to see how we could provide political assistance" to Haiti...

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