Ke­jan Haynes

One re­gion­al group, Or­gan­i­sa­tions of Hait­ian Civ­il So­ci­ety, is mak­ing a plea to Cari­com heads of gov­ern­ment who are fly­ing in­to Trinidad for the re­gion­al crime sym­po­sium, to place the sit­u­a­tion in Haiti front and cen­ter on the agen­da.

The group says it must be pri­ori­tised “ in or­der to avert the loom­ing geno­cide which Haiti is be­ing led in­to.”

The let­ter was sent by Myrtha Dé­sul­mé Pres­i­dent of the Haiti -Ja­maica So­ci­ety.

“We ask that Haiti be placed front and cen­ter on the agen­da and pri­or­i­tized at the Re­gion­al Sym­po­sium on Crime and Vi­o­lence,” she wrote. “The en­tire world is con­vuls­ing over what is un­fold­ing in Ukraine. There are more deaths in Haiti than in Ukraine. In our CARI­COM sis­ter coun­try, Haitians too have a right to live.”

The group is al­so ask­ing for Haiti to join the mul­ti coun­try law­suit with Mex­i­co, against US gun man­u­fac­tur­ers.

“Haiti has al­so been in­vit­ed to join the law­suit. One would have thought that any gov­ern­ment fac­ing the lev­el of may­hem which Mr lHen­ry is deal­ing with would be the first in line to sign the brief. Whether or not Hen­ry joins the brief should be a lit­mus test which the CARI­COM Heads should use to gauge his true com­mit­ment to re­solv­ing the cri­sis,” Dé­sul­mé wrote.

She said the Hait­ian Civ­il so­ci­ety doesn’t ex­pect Haiti’s de fac­to leader Ariel Hen­ry to join the suit.

“We are there­fore or­gan­is­ing to join the suit our­selves, and ask CARI­COM to speak up for Haiti and back our ini­tia­tive,” she wrote.