The 15-mem­ber re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion move­ment, CARI­COM, Mon­day said it is “deeply con­cerned” by the on­go­ing dif­fer­ences be­ing played out in pub­lic be­tween the Pres­i­dent of the Tran­si­tion­al Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil (TPC), Leslie Voltaire, and Prime Min­is­ter Gar­ry Conille.

“This grow­ing lack of co­he­sion im­per­ils the tran­si­tion­al process based on the spir­it and the prin­ci­ples of com­pro­mise, con­sen­sus and in­clu­sive­ness set out in the Po­lit­i­cal Agree­ment of 11 March 2024 in Ja­maica and the Po­lit­i­cal Ac­cord of 3 April 2024 drawn up by the Hait­ian stake­hold­ers,”  CARI­COM said in a state­ment.

It said that this “un­seem­ly and dis­tract­ing con­flict is tak­ing place at a time when the in­se­cu­ri­ty and hu­man­i­tar­i­an crises are de­te­ri­o­rat­ing grave­ly.

“This is fur­ther deep­en­ing and pro­long­ing the de­spair of the Hait­ian peo­ple seek­ing a glim­mer of hope and re­lief.

These dif­fer­ences be­tween the lead­ers of the ex­ec­u­tive al­so un­der­mine con­fi­dence among Haiti’s part­ners and the wider in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, im­ped­ing the pro­vi­sion of the crit­i­cal as­sis­tance that Haiti ur­gent­ly re­quires to ad­dress and over­come the com­plex cri­sis in which it is present­ly mired”.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, Oct 28, CMC

CMC/2024