CARICOM Member States Urged to Boycott Dominican Republic Products



Port-of-Spain, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) An arts group has called on the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to immediately boycott the Dominican Republic and products from that country in wake of the imminent deportation of Dominican nationals of Haitian descent. In a letter to Caricom chairman, Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie, the Jauvay Ayiti project, based at the University of the West Indies (UWI), expressed shock that the regional body has not commented on the issue and deemed the policy discriminatory. "As you would also know, the regularization process has been stacked against these nationals denying them of the chance to regularize their status and now leaving them vulnerable to immediate deportation from the Dominican Republic, the land of their birth", the letter adds. In addition to calling for a boycott of the Spanish speaking nation,the UWI group has urged Caribbean people and other who are concerned about the situation to sign a petition to condemn the Dominican Republic's Constitutional Court ruling, and its consequent action that would render thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent, stateless. sgl/cbr/acl/ymr

Zhana September 23, 2015 at 5:19am

This is just another example of Why We Need to Heal. We need to stop fighting amongst ourselves and learn better skills for communication. When we learn to connect from the heart, we will be able to show each other more mutual respect and resolve our conflicts in a way that meets everybody's needs.

I'll be publishing more about this in the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence next month.

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