Caricom Heads who met in Barbados from July 2 to 4 condemned the manner in which the Dominican Republic was treating Haitians who have been living and working there.
In their communique issued on July 5, the Heads voiced “abhorrence and outrage with respect to the treatment of Dominicans of Haitian descent and Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic.” The Heads said that this human rights problem has been aggravated as the so-called voluntary repatriation gathers pace in “unregulated conditions resulting from pressures and the threat of violence as well as the absence of a revised bilateral framework between Haiti and the Dominican Republic that the latter has been unwilling to conclude.”
Relations between the regional grouping and the Dominican Republic – which shares the isle of
