Jamaica, South Africa argue over Aristide plane fare
Saturday, May 29, 2004
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AFP): Two days before
ousted Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide and his family are to leave
for temporary asylum in South Africa, it is still unclear who will pay the
plane fare. Published reports Friday said the
Jamaican and South African governments were arguing over who would pay to fly
Aristide, his wife Mildred and their security detail to South Africa.
Aristide left power on February 29 and spent two weeks in the Central African
Republic, where he said he had been pushed from power by the United States
with French backing. Washington and Paris strongly denied the claims.
In mid-March, Jamaica's Prime Minister Percival Patterson invited Aristide to
his Caribbean island country for a 10-week visit with his daughters, who
traveled there from the United States to meet him.
A member of the US House of Representatives, Maxine Waters, was expected to
arrive in Jamaica Friday. Waters accompanied
the Aristides from the Central African Republic to Jamaica in March, but
officials would not confirm if she would also accompany the Aristides to South
Africa.
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