Patterson renews plea for Haiti pledges at UN Security Council meeting

Former Jamaica Prime Minister PJ Patterson at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday reiterated a call for the international community to honour pledges to disaster-ravaged Haiti and he also urged greater coordination in reconstruction efforts.

Patterson, who is Special Representative of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government on Haiti, expressed grave concerns to the Security Council that the ordinary Haitian was not feeling the impact of the recovery efforts to date, a statement from the CARICOM Secretariat said yesterday.

He was at the time participating in an open