{"id":17615,"date":"2024-04-02T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=17615"},"modified":"2024-04-02T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:36:28","slug":"caricom-leaders-to-address-haiti-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/caricom-leaders-to-address-haiti-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"CARICOM Leaders to Address Haiti Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, Dr. Irfaan Ali, has announced that regional leaders will convene in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday to discuss the escalating crisis in Haiti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made during a live statement by President Ali on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crisis in Haiti has been marked by a surge in gang violence, resulting in the release of thousands of prisoners, the destruction of police stations, and an attempted takeover of the country&#8217;s airports by gang leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognizing the severity of the situation, President Ali emphasized the need for urgent action to restore stability and normalcy to Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali stated that CARICOM heads of government are collaborating with various stakeholders and the Prime Minister of Haiti to address the crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While progress has been made, President Ali emphasized that more needs to be done to achieve the desired outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting in Kingston aims to engage at the highest level possible to demonstrate unity between CARICOM and the international community in support of Haiti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali reiterated CARICOM&#8217;s commitment to stand in solidarity with the Haitian people during this challenging time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haiti&#8217;s government recently extended a state of emergency as armed gangs continue to call for the overthrow of Prime Minister Ariel Henry&#8217;s government, who is currently in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, Dr. Irfaan Ali, has announced that regional leaders will convene in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday to discuss the escalating crisis in Haiti. The announcement was made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17617,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615\/revisions\/17617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}