CARICOM’s Role in Addressing Haiti’s Challenges

Earlier we heard from the U.S. State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Eric Jacobstein. While we engaged with him today on regional topics, we discussed the matter of Haitians who use Belize and Central America to get to the United States. He explained that there needs to be focus given to the challenges in that Caribbean country and that CARICOM and Belize play an important role in that process.

 

Eric Jacobstein, Dep. Asst. Sec., Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S State Dept.

“That’s precisely why we believe we need to get at the root causes of the challenges in Haiti. And so we’re grateful for the Kenyan government’s leadership on the Haitian on the multinational security support mission and, grateful also for the government of Belize’s commitment in this space and really look forward to working together. We think CARICOM has a key role to play and Belize especially, and so this is one of the topics I discussed with Foreign Minister Fonseca yesterday and we continue to be grateful for the collaboration with the Belizean Government on Haiti.”