Caricom to provide flood relief to Haiti and Dominican Republic
Monday, May 31, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): The Caribbean
Community (Caricom) will provide disaster relief to storm-ravaged Haiti and
the Dominican Republic, where at least 958 people were killed in flash floods,
the organisation said Saturday. "Caricom, for
its part, will work through the Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency
Relief Agency (CDERA) to contribute to the relief effort," the regional bloc
said in a statement. "We were indeed very
saddened to hear about the situation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and
the secretariat has moved very quickly to ensure that a mechanism is put in
place so that there is a coordinated Caricom response through CDERA," Deputy
Caricom Secretary General Lolita Applewhaite told AFP.
Haiti is a Caricom member nation, but the Dominican Republic does not belong
to the group. Caricom and CDERA said the
region's refusal to recognize the interim Haitian administration that took
power after Jean Bertrand Aristide fled into exile would not affect Caricom's
provision of disaster relief. "Humanitarian
assistance knows no political boundaries," said CDERA spokesman Terry Ally.
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