The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Eminent Persons Group (EPG) says it will schedule a visit to Haiti ‘as soon as possible’ as it continues to follow closely the evolving political situation in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
In a two paragraph statement, the EPG comprising former St. Lucia prime mInister Dr. Kenny Anthony as its chairman, along with former Jamaica prime minister Bruce Golding and his Bahamas counterpart, Perry Christie, said that their monitoring of the situation in Port au Prince is being done through ‘ongoing virtual engagements with a wide range of Haitian stakeholders including government, political and civil society sectors.
‘Fully aware of the importance of fine-tuning its perceptions through a visit to the country, while encouraging the Haitian stakeholders to resolve issues amongst themselves, the Eminent Persons Group will schedule its visit to Haiti as soon as practicable to hold in-person meetings with political and civil society stakeholders and with government officials,’ the statement said.