GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The CARICOM Eminent Persons Group (EPG) Tuesday said that “it is not in any way involved” in a political initiative called ‘Washington-Haiti-CARICOM Socio-Political Relief Solution”.
Former prime minister Dr. Kenny Anthony (left), Perry Christie and Bruce Golding, the members of the CARICOM EPG Group (File Photo)The EPG is a a high-level, three-member diplomatic team appointed by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to extend its “Good Offices” to facilitate inter-Haitian dialogue and help resolve Haiti’s prolonged political, institutional, and security crises.
It is chaired by the former St. Lucia prime minister Dr. Kenny Anthony and includes former Jamaica prime minister Bruce Golding and former Bahamas prime minister Perry Christie.
“The EPG will continue its Good Offices to assist the government and Haitian stakeholders in their quest for stability, good governance, the holding of free and fair elections as soon as practicable, and the restoration of constitutional order,” the group said in a two-paragraph statement.
The new political initiative is being organised by the Consensus des Assises du Dialogue Inter-Haïtien (CADIH), and according to a document released by the group and obtained by the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) “in accordance with the Haitian Constitution, only a President holds the authority to call elections.
“Therefore, the establishment of a bicephalous government—comprising both a President and a Prime Minister—is imperative if democratic governance and the restoration of constitutional order are to remain our collective goal.”
The last presidential election took pace in 2016 when Jovenel Moise was elected to office, but he was assassinated at his private residence overlooking the capital in July 2021. An interim government has been in office and since April 2024, Haiti has held no national elections.
On February 7 this year, the mandate of the Provisional Transitional Council (CPT) came to an end, and the United States said that it is ready to work with Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and the Council of Ministers to “achieve our common priority, which is stabilising Haiti”.
But the CADIH is claiming in its document that June 7, 2026 marked the “constitutional end of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s mandate” and that “any extension beyond this date would not only lack constitutional legitimacy but would also exacerbate Haiti’s political crisis and undermine the credibility of forthcoming elections”.
It said that there has been an official transfer of legitimacy from the CPT to the Resolutions adopted by the “Haitian Assizes” on the necessity of the constitutional bicephalous architecture of the Executive Power.
“Despite Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s maneuvers to illegally retain power from February 7 to the present, these Resolutions remain the sole legitimate Haitian solution, reinforced by the Joint Declaration of February 4, 2026, issued by the OAS, BINUH, CARICOM, Canada, and the United States,” the group said in the 34 page document.
The CADIH, which is planning a CARICOM mission between May 23-28 and June 1st.- 7, 2026, said the visits are intended “to secure a legitimate and inclusive political Addendum to the Haitian Assizes Resolutions, based on the facts collected during Phase 1 of the Mission Haiti in order to facilitate the installation of a bicephalous government (President and Prime Minister) as required by the Constitution of Haiti.”.
