Haiti PM appeals for calm as year-end celebrations approach

HAITI - Prime Minister Enex Jean-Charles has called on Haitians to “bury the hatchet” and come together for the betterment of the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country as the population gets ready for the end of year celebrations.

The heart of this country, despite everything, is still pulsating at the rhythm of goodwill and determination to transcend the divisions and differences that can potentially engulf us.

“At the end of the year, I make a vibrant appeal for a truce. Let us bury the hatchet ladies and gentlemen, and smoke the calumet of peace, while having the courage to enter into constructive dialogue, even just for this period of grace”, he said in a message ahead of the celebrations.

Jean-Charles said the end of 2016 will find Haitians in an atmosphere of anxiety, uncertainty, byzantine struggles for the conquest of power, when they were supposed to see us in a fraternal communion for the regeneration of the common homeland.

But he said despite a difficult economic situation, we have thought of ad hoc measures to alleviate the suffering of the social strata most affected by this rapidly deteriorating of terms of exchanges, while considering that the priority of the day is to save the elections as the only means of renewal of political staff. “In this historical turn of our life as a free and independent people, we must realize that, despite all our political, ideological and socio-cultural differences, there is one thing that we share: Haiti, that piece of land which is our common good. We have a duty to protect it from attacks from wherever they come from. It is our duty to unite to save our integrity”, he added.

Last week, the Electoral Court ordered a review of the preliminary results of the November 20 presidential elections, handing a lifeline to three political parties that have been challenging the victory of businessman Jovenelle Moise.

(jamaicaobserver.com)