(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community is among organizations represented on the Board of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission that will oversee the money pledged for Haiti’s reconstruction.

The IHRC, which has an 18-month mandate, will be co-chaired by the Hon Jean-Max Bellerive, Prime Minister of Haiti and Mr. Bill Clinton, former US President and current United Nations envoy to Haiti.

The private sector, civil society and major donors will also be on the Board.

In an address to the Donors Meeting in New York on Wednesday, the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson, former Jamaica Prime Minster who is the special representative of the CARICOM Heads of Government to Haiti said a sense of urgency must be maintained and stressed that the IHRC must initiate its work immediately.

“If we can, as an international community help Haiti rebuild itself into a modern, sustainable State, we would have advanced the cause of humanity everywhere,” Mr. Patterson said.

CONTACT: piu@caricom.org