Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness recently headed up a one-day Caribbean Community (Caricom) special mission to Haiti. The mission had been hotly anticipated amid ongoing discussions as to how the international community should respond to Haiti’s multifaceted security and political crisis which has intensified since the July 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moïse (2017-2021). The Caricom mission produced pledges of support for Haiti’s national police (PNd’H) but no mention of deploying a foreign security mission which Prime Minister Ariel Henry has requested and for which United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has repeatedly declared his backing.End of preview - This article contains approximately 877 words.
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