The Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition (HAGC) will travel to Panama this Tuesday to participate in the civil society dialogue to share their concerns with the heads of delegation, OAS officials, and Chief of State of the region and their accredited diplomats. Front and center for the HAGC Delegation will be the case of nearly 1,000,000 Haitians and their descendants in the Dominican Republic and another 100,000 Haitians and their descendants in the Bahamas whose Foreign Relations and Immigration Minister, Mr. Fred Mitchel, are trying to deport to their homeland, said Mrs. Seourette Michel, Esq., a member of the HAGC delegation. This past February, HAGC sent a team of three professionals, a legal counsel and two Social Workers to conduct a field visit to assess the situation of the Haitian nationals in the Bahamas Islands. The conclusion of those in the group is the Haitian community was living in fear and a chronic state of panic. Recently the media broadcast a group of children was apprehended by the Bahamas military forces and jailed together with adults and other common criminals. The Minister had indicated that at the next school season beginning in September, everyone in the country must provide a copy of their passport or immigration papers in order for them to attend school. No other country in the Caribbean has undertaken similar actions against immigrants children. The Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) conducted a hearing on the Bahamas situation, the members of the Court was vividly disturbed by the action of Government Authorities. HAGC is planning to garner additional support from civil society groups and other government of the region. Las year HAGC members travelled to the Dominican Republic to speak with local and government representatives in order to make an assessment on the situation of the Dominican-Haitians in that country. in the past two months several Haitian nationals were killed by Dominicans claiming that they are stopping the invasion by murdering these Haitians regardless or not they know the legal status of those individuals. Les ciruelitos is a paramilitary group that is organized to promote this type of killings, said jean-Robert Lafortune, president of HAGC who visited several times the Dominican Republic to speak with civil society groups and government officials regarding finding a permanent solution in the crisis opposing Haiti and its neighbor, the Dominicans.
The Haiti's Foreign Minister, Mr. Duly Brutus explained that the dialogue the two governments did resume and he expressed some progress was made but more has to come. In a recent meeting at the Organization of American States (OAS) with Ambassador Albert Ramdin, the OAS Assistant General Secretary, he expressed that in this case featuring Haiti and D.R, the relation of people to people between the two countries were much more important than the dialogue of government to government and that the OAS was ready to play its role in that dialogue.
In the context of regional politics, Haiti has not been able to perform adequately its role of being a champion of its own people regarding its response given in both cases related to the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas Despite the regional support from regional leaders in CARICOM and other places, Haiti has miserably failed to transform the supports into hardcore deliverables to show to the nation. Haiti had to say no tp the coordination of the 2015 OAS General