Three
new elected leaders to attend upcoming Caricom meeting
Caribbean
news
Basseterre
St. Kitts
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06 11 06
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; Prime Minister Portia
Simpson-Miller, who assumed the post in Jamaica
on the retirement of P.J. Patterson and the 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, Dr. Denzil 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.
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.
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.
Caribbean
news Jun 7, 2006
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