Three days of high-stake negotiations between interim Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry and a cross-section of Haitian political and civic leaders have ended without a resolution to their country’s multifaceted crisis, but with an agreement to continue talking back in Port-au-Prince.
Those discussions are to involve not just the 50 Haitians who eventually made it to Jamaica’s capital this week, but also the three former Caribbean prime ministers — Perry Christy of The Bahamas, Bruce Golding of Jamaica and Kenny Anthony of St. Lucia — who facilitated the tense political negotiations aimed at getting Haitians to compromise.
The former leaders and elder statesmen have agreed to travel to Haiti in the coming days to meet with members of a transition council whose job it is to prepare the volatile country for long-overdue elections. The council currently consists of three members and is headed by Mirlande Manigat, a constitutional law expert and former first lady and presidential candidate.
