Haiti and CARICOM Move Toward Redefining the Role of the Eminent Persons Group

For some time now, CARICOM has played an active role in Haiti, influencing the country's political balance and intervening in its internal affairs as both a mediator and facilitator. That is the role of a regional organization and its institutions.

Without going back to the administration of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the early 2000s, one can measure CARICOM's impact. It has, at different times, served as a lifeline for Ariel Henry's government, contributed to the destabilization of that same government, and ac