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More from Rickey Singh on CARICOM and Latortue

Submitted March 19, 2004 - 1:15 pm by Jeff Simpson
From the Barbados Daily Nation:

OUR CARIBBEAN: This unwise decision by Haiti regime

THE UNITED STATES-approved interim Prime Minister of Haiti, Gerard LaTortue, has shown a surprising lack of appreciation for diplomacy and the historical nature of Haitian-Caribbean Community relations when he announced on Monday a freeze of Haiti’s membership in CARICOM. It is an unwise move, however engineered.

While official focus in Washington, primary sponsor of the interim regime in Haiti, as well as in Port-au-Prince, is expediently designed to specifically blame Jamaica for hosting ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide, the reality is that the George Bush administration has gone on the offensive to foment division within CARICOM on the issue. But it will not succeed.

None can be so politically obtuse not to understand the real reason: It has to do with independent nations of CARICOM exercising their sovereign right, collectively, to openly question the circumstances of Aristide’s dramatic departure from power and flight into exile on February 29.

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