Caribbean Roundup: Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and St. Kitts and Nevis

According to Caribbean Life News, Barbados Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley called for the Caribbean to remain a zone of peace and opposed the region becoming a place for conflict or the use of force. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Mottley said Caribbean political leaders must help maintain peace and promote progress across the region. She also highlighted Haiti’s ongoing security crisis, saying it continues to hinder political progress and economic recovery. “Still, preparations for a return to constitutional government are moving forward, even with great difficulty. But those efforts cannot succeed unless security improves, particularly in the areas containing more than half of Haiti’s electorate,” she said. Mottley said Barbados supports the full deployment and renewal of the mandate of the 5,500-member Gang Suppression Force (GSF), the multinational mission established to combat armed gangs in Haiti. “Let me