{"id":48528,"date":"2019-08-08T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=48528"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:30:57","slug":"commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Contempt of Haitians is shameful"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/p>

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(The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/p>\n

The response to Haitians arriving in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries has been lamentable at best and contemptible at worst.\u00a0\u00a0They have been treated, for the most part, as pariahs particularly by the ignorant and bigoted.<\/p>

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Recently, in Guyana, the arrival of Haitians has been greeted with a hysteria that was evident in other parts of the region.\u00a0\u00a0Many alarmist remarks were made and reported in the media; among them that the Haitians would spread HIV\/Aids and the practice of voodoo.<\/p>

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Those who so glibly claimed that the Haitian would spread HIV\/Aids obviously failed to recognise that the disease is not non-communicable. HIV is spread primarily by unprotected sex (including anal and oral sex), contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding.\u00a0\u00a0HIV is not spread by air or water, mosquitoes, ticks or other insects, saliva, tears, or sweat that is not mixed with the blood of a person with HIV, shaking hands, sharing toilets, sharing dishes, silverware, or drinking glasses.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, to contract HIV, there must be sexual relations with an infected person.<\/p>\n

The scaremongers, who make the claim about Haitians spreading HIV\/Aids, are either ignorant of how the disease is spread, or simply regarded facts as an obstacle to their objectives.<\/p>

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Regarding the practice of voodoo, despite denigrating it, the purveyors appear to accord it greater powers than their own religions and practices.\u00a0Yet there is no evidence, except in books of fiction and fanciful stories, that supports the capability of voodoo.\u00a0\u00a0Again, those who repeat these avowals are either ignorant of the facts or conveniently discard them in pursuit of their own purposes.<\/p>\n

Beyond the science of these matters, the scaremongering about Haitians assumes that those who arrive in Caribbean countries fit into the narrative of disease-infected, devil-worshippers.\u00a0\u00a0The reality is that they are no more than persons who are fleeing very difficult economic circumstances in Haiti in search of opportunities.<\/p>

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Caribbean people from all countries should understand that motivation.\u00a0\u00a0At times of economic decline in their own countries, nationals of every Caribbean country, without exception, have sought economic refuge in the United States, Canada, Europe and even nearby Latin American and Caribbean countries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Guyanese particularly should empathise with prejudices against them because they suffered them for years in the Caribbean.\u00a0\u00a0For close to five decades, until recently when Guyana\u2019s wealth in oil and gas was unearthed, Guyanese were treated as unwelcome scoundrels with the worse possible labels ascribed to them, regardless of gender or race.<\/p>

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In any event, the only member state of CARICOM that should have a serious and legitimate concern about Haitian refugees is The Bahamas which has been the recipient of boatloads of Haitians, trying to escape conditions in their own country.\u00a0\u00a0Incidentally, this observation about The Bahamas in relation to Haitians should not obscure the fact that, while today it has to manage the Haitian refugee situation very carefully because it places a severe strain on its financial capacity and its economy, it has absorbed Haitians over many years -some of whom founded families that are now leading Bahamians.<\/p>\n

Further, although it is a member of the Caribbean Community, the Bahamas, like Montserrat, was granted the right to opt out of certain of the requirements of the CARICOM Treaty, including freedom of movement of people. In this sense, the Bahamas is not a full member of CARICOM and has no treaty obligation to allow freedom of entry of CARICOM nationals in any category<\/p>\n

Therefore, CARICOM countries, other than The Bahamas and Montserrat but including Guyana, are legally bound to grant CARICOM nationals the right to remain for a period of six months provided they are not a security risk and they can demonstrate the ability not to become a charge upon the State during their stay.\u00a0\u00a0In principle, this right applies to Haitian nationals as well.<\/p>\n

However, it should be noted that the governments of two CARICOM countries, Antigua and Barbuda and St Kitts-Nevis were allowed to reserve their positions because, over the last four decades, they have been the recipients of a disproportionately large number of CARICOM nationals and would be hard-pressed to accept any more who attempt to stay in the country illegally.<\/p>\n

But to be clear, the right given to CARICOM nationals, including Haitians, to enter and remain for six months in another CARICOM country is not an unfettered right as explained earlier.\u00a0\u00a0It is also not a right to remain in the country illegally.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Therefore, Haitians, like all other CARICOM nationals, who stay beyond the six-month period are liable for deportation.<\/p>\n

Regrettably, unscrupulous persons in Haiti and elsewhere have deliberately twisted the rights accorded by the CARICOM Treaty, as adjudicated by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), to lure Haitians into believing that they can arrive in and remain in CARICOM countries to live and work.<\/p>\n

In this connection, Barbados became a target of this illegal operation after its government, in what clearly it thought was fair-mindedness, chose to remove the necessity for Haitians to apply for to enter Barbados.\u00a0\u00a0After reported incidents of abuse, the government announced that it \u201cwas compelled\u201d to reinstitute the requirement for Haitians to have visas.<\/p>\n

The Haitian people are vulnerable.\u00a0\u00a0They cannot be blamed for their shameless exploitation by bandits. They certainly do not deserve the prejudiced epithets that have been used to describe them by other Caribbean people.<\/p>\n

The reality is that small CARICOM countries, already confronted with major economic challenges, cannot afford unchecked Haitian entry as refugees or to seek employment.\u00a0\u00a0After all, the unemployed of Haiti is estimated to be larger than the entire populations of all CARICOM countries combined.<\/p>\n

It is against that reality that the entry of Haitians should be measured; it should not be judged by branding Haitians with false and unfair characterisations they do not deserve.\u00a0\u00a0Anyone who knows Haiti would know that the Haitians are a talented and creative people who struggle and survive despite terrible odds.<\/p>\n

Responses and previous commentaries:\u00a0www.sirronaldsanders.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) The response […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY: Contempt of Haitians is shameful - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY: Contempt of Haitians is shameful\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organisation of American States.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own) The response […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-08T16:28:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-08T16:30:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sir-ron-sanders-e1507032455502.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"306\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"COMMENTARY: Contempt of Haitians is shameful\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-08T16:28:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-08T16:30:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/\"},\"wordCount\":1061,\"commentCount\":5,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:400\/h:306\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sir-ron-sanders-e1507032455502.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-contempt-of-haitians-is-shameful\/\",\"name\":\"COMMENTARY: Contempt of Haitians is shameful - 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