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CARICOM Leaders meeting in the Cabinet Room, Antigua and Barbuda. PHOTO by Erasmus Williams |
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS (MAY 7TH 2004) – Preparations for the Staging of Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC2007) and matters related to Haiti were among issues discussed at the just concluded 17th Meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Antigua.
The two-day meeting was held in the Cabinet Room of the Office of Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, the Hon. Baldwin Spencer.
The CARICOM Bureau also received an update on the Establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and discussed the participation of the region in key Summits to be held before the 25th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in Grenada in July 2004.
Also attending the meeting were the Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Hon. P. J. Patterson; Prime Minister of Grenada the Right Hon. Keith Mitchell; Prime Minister of St. Lucia, the Hon. Kenny Anthony; Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, the Hon. Patrick Manning and the Foreign Minister of the Bahamas.
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Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister and CARICOM Chairman, Hon. Baldwin Spencer (l) and CARICOM Secretary General Dr. Edwin Carrington. PHOTO by Erasmus Williams |
CARICOM has agreed to request the Washington-based Organisation of American States (OAS) to investigate the ouster of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The 15-member Caribbean Community had initially called for a U.N. investigation after Aristide left Haiti on Feb. 29. Caribbean leaders have decided at the Antigua meeting to take their request to the OAS.
At a CARICOM Inter-Sessional in St. Kitts in March, Caribbean leaders refused to recognise Haiti's interim government and will reconsider the issue at a meeting in July in Grenada.
Caribbean leaders also tentatively agreed in Antigua to contribute peacekeepers and police to an upcoming U.N. mission in Haiti.
CARICOM Chairman and Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, the Hon. Lester Bird and CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Edwin Carrington in the margins of the Bureau Meeting met with the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Mexico in Trinidad and Tobago, Ms. Luz Elena Banos-Rivas to discuss the attendance of CARICOM Heads of Government at the Third Europe Union/Latin America and Caribbean Summit in Mexico later this month.
