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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Following a recent meeting between the CARICOM heads of government and US President George Bush , three Caribbean territories have been identified to possibly benefit from an expansion of a deportee re integration program currently being implemented for the first time in Haiti. According to CARICOM chairman Ralph Gonsalves, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago are likely to benefit from the US 1 million dollar program which seeks to facilitate the resettlement of Haitian deportees through training, counselling and the development of micro enterprises. Gonsalves believes the gesture an important policy statement from the George Bush Administration and a recognititon that, whilst the US law for deportation to the country of birth would not be re-visited, it was still crucial that some aid be provided to assist with the resettlement of these deportees, many of whom had no tie to the communities they had left, some, in most instances, as infants.
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