Haiti Set for Comeback to Caricom Family

Caricom leaders huddled in Port of Spain, Trinidad, for the 17th International Heads of Government Conference, are prepared to re-instate Haiti back into the Caricom community. This was the view of Jamaican Prime Minister PJ Patterson, as well as what he said was the view of other regional heads.

Mr. Patterson made the disclosure as he spoke with reporters during a news briefing at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel on Wednesday.

The formal reinstatement however will not take place until official results of Haiti´s February 7, 2006 election are known and the installing of a duly democratically appointed leader.

Haiti had earlier been suspended from Caricom because of its continued political turmoil and security problems that escalated immediately following the ousting of then President Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004.