Thursday, October 10, 2013

Caribbean leaders must speak up on Dominican Republic ruling on Haitian migrants urges PJ Patterson

Former Jamaica prime minister Percival James (PJ) Patterson has indicated that the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping needs to strongly condemn recent developments in the Dominican Republic that could render stateless, thousands of persons of Haitian descent.

The Constitutional Court in Santo Domingo has ruled in favor of stripping citizenship from children of Haitian migrants. The decision applies to those born after 1929 — a category that overwhelmingly includes

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