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CARICOM Chairman and Antigua
and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston
Browne is fearful that violence can
erupt again in Haiti and there could
be further instability in the country if
CARICOM and the international community
do not come up with a “homegrown
and indigenous” solution to the
country’s political problems.
He stressed that CARICOM did not
believe that “any form”
of military intervention
will help to resolve
the issues in Haiti.
He said what is
required is assistance
to help Haiti to strengthen its governance
institutions and at the time to
access resources to deal with the other
socio-economic problems, including
addressing the existential threat that
COVID-19 presents to the population.
A State of Emergency has been
declared in Haiti following the assassination
of Haitian President Jovenel
Moise recently.
Moise was shot dead and his wife seriously
wounded when gunmen stormed
their private home in Port-au-Prince in
the morning.
Nothing that the constitutional
and political crisis existed prior to
Moises”assassination, Browne said that
CARICOM was concerned that although
there is relative peace in the country
at this time, “violence may erupt very
soon.”
CARIBBEAN
CARICOM recently met in emergency
session in wake of the recent assassination
of the president of Haiti.
In a statement issued following the
meeting said “The
heads of government
are shocked and saddened
by the assassination
of a member of
a CARICOM family, His Excellency Jovenel
Moise,” during the early hours of
July 7, 2021.
They are concerned by the condition
of his wife, the First Lady, Martine
Moise, who was seriously wounded in
the attack, and wish her a speedy recovery
.Heads of Government strongly condemn
this abhorrent and reprehensible
act that comes at a time of deep turmoil
and institutional weakness in the country,
the statement said.
They called for the perpetrators to be
apprehended and brought to justice and
for law and order to prevail.
As a mark of respect, the Member
States of the Community will fly their
national flag on the day of the funeral.
GRENADA
The Grenada government last week
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In this handout photo released by Haiti’s Secretary of State for Communication, Haiti’s fi rst lady Martine Moise, wearing a bullet
proof vest and her right arm in a sling, arrives at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday,
July 17, 2021. Martine Moise, the wife of assassinated President Jovenel Moise, who was injured in the July 7 attack at their private
home, returned to the Caribbean nation on Saturday following her release from a Miami hospital. Haiti’s Secretary of State for
Communication Photo/via AP
announced new measures regarding
the entry of children into the country
as it moves to curb the spread of the
Covid-19 pandemic.
“Effective immediately, persons 13
years and under traveling with a fully
vaccinated party will be treated as that
party-fully vaccinated with respect to
quarantine, ” Health Minister Nickolas
Steele told reporters.
“So if you are traveling with children
13 and under, and you
and everyone else in
the party are fully
vaccinated, then the
entire party will only
have to do 48 hours in
quarantine. Individuals over the age of
five are swabbed like all other adults at
the airport,” he said.
The government recently announced
that only fully vaccinated people would
be allowed into the country.
Steele told reporters “residents and
citizens can return to Grenada whether
vaccinated or unvaccinated.”
He said Grenada’s low rate of infection
is linked directly to the island’s
strict measures at ports of entry, even
as he lamented the slow pace at which
citizens are becoming inoculated.
Grenada began its vaccination program
in early February and to date,
less than 20 percent of the population
who are eligible to be vaccinated are
inoculated.
As of July 11, the authorities said the
number of individuals receiving the
vaccine is 35,531 — with 14,910 being
fully vaccinated with two doses.
HAITI
Haitian authorities are probing a
plane crash that killed six people when
the small aircraft went down recently
en route from an airport in Port-au-
Prince to the southern coastal city of
Jacamel.
Officials from the National Civil Aviation
Office, who managed to get to the
scene, although the area is difficult to
access, found the six bodies.
Among the dead are two Dominicans
who lived in Jacmel, one of whom was
piloting the plane.
They have been identified as Amin
Perez and Rodney Cedemo and two
American missionaries. Trent Hostler,
35, and John Miller were both from the
Christian organization
Gospel to Haiti.
The identities of the
other two victims were
not known.
JAMAICA
The Jamaican government says the
preliminary damage caused by the passage
of Tropical Storm Elsa recently
had been put at J$803 million.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness said
a preliminary assessment by the National
Agency (NWA) is approximately 177
roads, island wide had been affected
by the storm, that had earlier become
the first-named hurricane of the 2021
Atlantic Hurricane season when it
passed through the Lesser Antilles.
Holness told parliament the estimates
for flood damage
are very preliminary
and the agency
is continuing damage
assessment to determine
the cost for permanent repairs.
He said the assessment, to date, is
divided into two categories -cost to
clean and clear roadways and drains,
of silt and debris and cost to make the
road accessible.
The prime minister urged legislators
to move quickly in assisting the NWA in
having the first phase of its mitigation
program completed , saying that the
government has made J$100 million
available for this purpose.
ST. KITTS
The St. Kitts and
Nevis government has
introduced one of the
strictest travel protocols
due to COVID-19.
According to the St. Kitts Tourism
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