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How Closely Are Caribbean Leaders Working Together?
Leaders of Caribbean countries gathered this month in the Bahamas for a summit of the Caribbean Community, or Caricom. // Photo: Caricom.
Leaders of the Caribbean Community, or Caricom, met Feb. 15-17 in the Bahamas, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a U.S. delegation led by Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols. High on the agenda was discussion of the crisis in Haiti, where gangs have grown in power since President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination in July 2021. At the summit, Caribbean leaders also discussed migration, health care, drug trafficking, food security and climate change. What were the biggest advances that came out of the gathering? How much did the summit achieve in terms of finding a solution to Haiti’s crisis? To what extent did the summit strengthen economic cooperation, which Trudeau’s office had identified as a main goal of the meeting?
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Raymond Joseph, former ambassador of Haiti to the United States: “It’s rather early to know the biggest overall advances that resulted from the summit in the Bahamas. But Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who attended the meeting, failed to get what he had asked in a plea last October to the international community: foreign boots on the ground to help counter gangs. Perhaps some attention has been paid to Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who said, last November, that his country won’t send troops to Haiti. ‘Such a move by any country,’ he added, ‘could be seen by the Haitian people as propping up a government that the majority of Haitians see as illegitimate.’ Thus, at the summit, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who’s resisted a U.S. push for his country to lead an invasion force, said Canada will help reinforce…”
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