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WASHINGTON (CMC): Guyana has called for a transitional government in Haiti as the French-speaking CARICOM country grapples with a political and socio-economic situation that has led to increase gang warfare and the collapse of many of the...

CARICOM’s Eminent Persons Group (EPG) said a recent meeting with Haitian stakeholders on a path forward towards elections and governance took a bad turn after some called for the resignation of Haiti’s prime minister. The group is made up of former prime ministers Dr. Kenny Anthony from Saint Lucia; Bruce Golding of Jamaica; and Perry

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Singapore, a multi-ethnic and diverse nation, witnessed a historic presidential election when Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a multi-generational Singaporean of Tamil ancestry, secured a landslide victory this week.

President-elect Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Saturday that he was surprised at the margin of his victory at Friday’s polls, calling it a vote for an optimistic future and a vote for unity.

When it comes to Haiti’s security, the international community, especially countries in the Caribbean and Africa, ought not to make the perfect, or even the best, the enemy of the good. Ordinary Haitians, for the most part, exist in abject...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, urged the Security Council to ensure that a multinational police deployment force is sent to Haiti to restore peace and security in the French-speaking CARICOM...

Haiti is administratively divided into 10 departments, which are subdivided into districts, each of which has communes. The communes are in turn divided into community sections, and these are made up of neighborhoods. According to Haitian and international humanitarian and human rights organizations working in Haiti, this administrative structure may vary and there can be additional or different subdivisions in some places, for example in densely populated or large communes, where residents

The 98-page report, “Living a Nightmare: Haiti Needs an Urgent Rights-Based Response to Escalating Crisis,” documents abuses committed by criminal groups and state inaction in four metropolitan Port-au-Prince communes – Cabaret, Cité Soleil, Croix-des-Bouquets, and Port-au-Prince itself – between January and April 2023. In Haiti, the state is nearly absent, impunity reigns, and nearly half the population is acutely food insecure. Human Rights Watch also assessed the humanitarian, politi...

International support to help the Haitian National Police (HNP) is “both urgent and critical” a US State Department official said on Friday. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Caribbean Affairs and Haiti Barbara Feinstein commended Kenya after its announcement that it will send 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help bring stability to the country.