BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados has become the latest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to indicate that it will participate in a multinational security force seeking to restore peace and stability in Haiti.
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kerrie D. Symmonds said that Bridgetown will support the proposed United Nations Security Council-authorised multinational security force for Haiti.
He said the support will come from security personnel dispatched with the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS).
Barbados will join the Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, and Barbuda, as well as Belize, which have already indicated a willingness to be part of the multinational force to be led by Kenya.
Earlier this week, Belize Prime Minister John Briceño said CARICOM has a “moral responsibility to do something” regarding the situation in Haiti, noting, “As you all know that Haiti is a terrible state and innocent people are being murdered, women are being raped, even children are being raped.
“And, it is just a sense of lawlessness, and I believe we in CARICOM have a moral responsibility to do something,” Briceño told reporters.
CARICOM leaders addressing the just concluded 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) had used the occasion to urge the international and, more particularly, the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution allowing the multi-disciplinary force to enter Haiti.
Haitian Prime Minister Dr. Ariel Henry told the UNGA last Friday that he had “come here today on behalf of the people of Haiti to tell you that we are ready for that change we have been waiting for almost two centuries.”
But he noted that “freedom can only be complete if it enables each citizen to live in dignity and decent conditions.”
Ariel, who heads the interim government here following the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovennel Moise, has in the past called on the international community to send in a multinational force to maintain peace and security in the country.
In its statement on Wednesday, Barbados said it will also provide additional in-kind support in training and capacity-building to the Haitian government based on jointly-identified objectives.
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