The April 24 Initiative Challenges CARICOM's Involvement in the Haitian Crisis

CARICOM's approach to contacting representatives of several stakeholders of the April 3, 2024 agreement is raising strong discussions within the political class. This is the case for the April 24, 2025 Initiative. This structure, which brings together political organizations and civil society, is instead demanding the immediate opening of consultations to all active and representative forces of the country.

Composed notably of « Lòd Demokratik », AGIR and RDNP among others, and several other sociopolitical structures express their deep concern about the way CARICOM intends to resume political negotiations with the initiators of the CPT.

The April 24 Initiative describes this approach as « partisan and blind, contrary to the principles of inclusivity and national sovereignty ».

In its press statement published this June 17, 2025, the April 24, 2025 Initiative believes that CARICOM is conducting a closed and partisan dialogue, exclusively with the architects of national failure, these discredited political actors, artificially promoted after the president's assassination in 2021, and authors of the April 3, 2024 agreement that gave birth to the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT).

« This choice of interlocutor selectivity, combined with a lack of transparency regarding ongoing consultations, seriously undermines the legitimacy of CARICOM's actions in Haiti. It gives the impression of tacit diplomatic support for a rejected minority, and risks fueling popular distrust, or even definitively breaking the bond of trust with the regional organization », denounced the April 24, 2025 Initiative.

The leaders of this structure propose « a clear democratic alternative, based on a bicameral governance, comprising a transitional president from the Court of Cassation, custodian of national sovereignty, and a governmental team to implement a Citizen Governance Plan, developed transparently and participatively, and validated on May 20, 2025, by over a hundred organizations from across the country ».

It also demands the immediate opening of consultations to all active and representative forces, the establishment of an inclusive and transparent consultative framework, and the publication of selection criteria, exchanged documents, and the conclusions of the Group of Eminent Persons (GPE).

This statement comes a day after the December 21 sector, represented within the presidential transitional council by Louis Louis Gérald Gilles, expressed its dissatisfaction with the work of the CPT.

Yesterday, Monday, CP Frinel Joseph, an observer member of the CPT, called on his peers to regain control and remember their main mission: to restore public security and organize elections.