Ja: Haiti a problem; Caricom invasion by invitation not ruled out

Caricom doesn't want to be too forceful.

Patrick Manning, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, also said Tuesday that while CARICOM was opposed to any military intervention in Haiti, he was not ruling out the possibility of the regional grouping agreeing to peacekeeping troops to end the political situation there.

"The CARICOM countries have always made it clear that a peace-keeping force is something that we are quite prepared to consider. However, we will only do so if the authorities in Haiti agree to something like that," he told reporters in Trinidad.

"We are not going to impose ourselves on anybody. We have already ruled out intervention," he added.