How CARICOM Can Assist Haiti and Long Term Development Plans

Dr. Carla Barnett

The CARICOM heads of government will also be talking about issues affecting Haiti and how the member countries can offer assistance. But, Secretary General Dr. Carla Barnett says the community also believes they need to help steer the international community towards considering the long term development of Haiti.

Dr. Carla Barnett, Secretary General, CARICOM

“We will be having discussions with Haiti in which we will be talking about how CARICOM can be more helpful. CARICOM has offered good offices to Haiti from time to time to be able to offer assistance, for strengthening of administration, for strengthening the electoral processes, for training of security forces, for different kinds of undertakings. We feel at this time that we will continue to have those things on the table, but we also feel that there’s a particular role that we need to play, which is to encourage and in some ways, lead the international community towards consideration of the long-term development plan for Haiti.”