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| Kitts and Nevis' Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas and Jamaica's Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller in January photo in Kingston. |
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, JUNE 6TH 2006 - Heads of State and Governments of Haiti, Jamaica and Montserrat will be among the new faces when the 27th Conference of Caribbean Heads of Government convenes here next month.
His Excellency Rene Préva, who was recently elected President of Haiti; the Most Honourable Portia Simpson-Miller, who assumed the post of Prime Minister of Jamaica on the retirement of the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson and the Hon. Dr. Lowell Lewis, who was elected the new Chief Minister of Montserrat following general elections there last week, will be welcomed by host Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas.
According to the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat, Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community have welcomed the return to constitutional rule in Haiti through the election of a president and of parliamentary representatives in the course of an electoral process deemed by the people of Haiti and the international community as free and fair.
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| New Chief Minister of Montserrat, Hon. Lowell Lewis |
The Senate and Lower House have recently ratified the candidacy of Mr. Jacques Edouard Alexis as Prime Minister designated by President René Préval.
CARICOM Heads of Government in a statement congratulate the people of Haiti who through their patience, resolve and courage demonstrated their attachment to the democratic process by exercising their franchise to determine their representatives at the presidential and legislative levels.
The Caribbean Community said it looks forward to the election of local and municipal representatives so that the constitutional architecture of representation can be completed.
With the return to constitutional rule in Haiti, and in keeping with the principled position it took following the interruption of the democratic process on 29 February 2004, the Caribbean Community looks forward to Haiti's resumption of its place in its Councils.
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| His Excellency the President of Haiti, Rene Preval |
In keeping with the Community's usual practice, as one of the Heads of Government elected since the last meeting of the Conference in February of this year, His Excellency René Préval has been invited not only to take Haiti's rightful place in the Conference on the occasion of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting scheduled to be held in St. Kitts and Nevis on 3-6 July 2006, but also to address the Opening Ceremony.
