Caribbean & Central America - 16 November 2004

“This is something we should have done a long time ago and the time has come."
Haiti's Prime Minister Gérard Latortue upon issuing an arrest warrant for former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide on corruption charges.

“We live in a country that has still not overcome a very significant polarisation […] There needs to be greater political plurality so that the people have more options."
El Salvador's Facundo Guardado, former guerrilla commander, after forming a new left-of-centre party 'Concertación Socialdemócrata' to challenge the orthodox leftwing FMLN.

“As service employees in the hotel and hospitality industry leave Grenada for employment in other Caribbean countries, construction workers, roofers and electricians among others have been arriving in Grenada in droves seeking employment in the reconstruction of the country's ravaged infrastructure." 
Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell on the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan.