Jamaica Observer

CARICOM and the Organ­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS), are send­ing a joint team of observers to Haiti to pre­pare for leg­isla­tive and pres­i­den­tial elec­tions on Novem­ber 28.

More than 150 observers will be deployed to Haiti and will be respon­si­ble for mon­i­tor­ing the process before, dur­ing and after the elec­tions. An ini­tial group of observers is sched­uled to arrive at the begin­ning of next month.

This is the first time that the OAS and CARICOM have part­nered to observe an elec­tion, said OAS Assis­tant Sec­re­tary Gen­eral Albert R Ramdin in a release today.

“We believe that if a coun­try is in need of help, whether it’s polit­i­cal, eco­nomic or social, or whether it is in need of tech­ni­cal assis­tance, we need to work together with the sub­re­gional inte­gra­tion entity or coop­er­a­tion entity, in this case CARICOM,” said Ramdin.

He said that prepa­ra­tions for the elec­tion are on sched­ule, “So if every­thing goes well in terms of tech­ni­cal prepa­ra­tion we believe we can have free, fair and cred­i­ble elections.”

Accord­ing to the OAS rep­re­sen­ta­tive timely elec­tions will improve the recon­struc­tion process.

Elec­tions were post­poned after the Jan­u­ary 12 earthquake.

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