PM Browne Convenes Meeting of CARICOM Heads Bureau

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PM Gaston Browne, Wednesday afternoon convened a meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government for a two-hour meeting with a single item on the agenda: Haiti.

The Bureau consists of the CARICOM chairman, the incoming and immediate past chairs, as well as the CARICOM Secretary-General, and serves as an executive committee of the larger grouping. The Bureau is also seen as a quick-consult mechanism to facilitate speedy decision-making  and to stay on top of events. It allows for the Bureau to move ahead with decisive action while canvassing the views of their colleagues to achieve consensus.

At present the CARICOM Bureau comprises PM Gaston Browne as incumbent chair; PM Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago as immediate past chair; PM John Briceno of Belize as incoming chair; and Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General. The Bureau is also an open-ended institution so that any Head of Government who wishes to join may do so. PM Gonsalves of Saint  Vincent and the Grenadines also chose to join the meeting.

The full membership of the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference met for their traditional July Summit over 5-6 July, only hours before President Jovenel Moise of Haiti was assassinated in a stunning geo-political development. Since then, the question of Haiti has dominated CARICOM’s agenda, as CARICOM engages in diplomatic outreach to major international powers as well as to the different political forces in Haiti.

The meeting was briefed by Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Dr. Claude Joseph on the current situation on the ground in Haiti. He briefed the meeting on the political and security dimensions of the challenges now faced by Haiti.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines, currently a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, was able to brief the meeting on the deliberations in that body, which held a special meeting on Haiti on 8th July.

Heads examined the conditions necessary for free and fair elections in Haiti, as well as a possible timetable for preparing the conditions that would ensure the election’s success. Heads were of the view that successful elections were a critical factor in attempting to achieve a resolution of the political impasse and that CARICOM needed to position itself to support an emerging Haitian political consensus on the way forward.

Towards the end of the meeting, the Heads turned their attention to the situation in Cuba and agreed on a two-track approach to what they saw as a potentially dangerous escalation of events with serious implications.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. You FRAID man. You should be on the ground in Haiti. Assessing the situation, meeting with the interim Haitian leadership and report back to the Caricom what you have deciphered.

    Your the Chairman of Caricom. Step up!

  2. CARICOM is a joke and waste of Antigua’s time. We should just focus on the OECS and the Commonwealth.

    All the criminals in Antigua immigrate to Antigua via CARICOM rules. Withdraw from CARICOM now!

  3. Methinks USA is turning all attention, activity & $$$ to Cuba… They’ve been waiting for a crack in communism since the Bay of Pigs.
    Plenty of connected wealthy cuban-americans in South Florida with plenty votes.

    Haiti, will again, get lost in the mix.
    Haiti fatigue is real in many donor/assistance countries.
    The Haitian crisis appears a series of never-ending crises with little systemic, civil service & societal change, decade after decade after decade.

    In a nutshell, Haiti is a ‘hard sell’ in a global pandemic when every country has racked up big debt & is emotionally spent with the hell C-19 continues to deliver.

  4. The PEOPLE are sick and tired of our tone deaf prime minister Gaston Browne focus on trans-national organizations like CARICOM, World Economic Forum, W.H.O., OECS, PAHO and other globalist front organizations for the NWO and Great Reset. If you think that the few thousand members of these elitist clubs are going to save you, then you are sadly mistaken. There are 7 BILLION of us and we are going to put an end to your evil plans.

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