PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said Monday that the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country would like to see itself as “an emerging mining country” within the next two decades. "Haiti would like to place itself as an emerging mining country in the next 20 years,” he said at the start of a two day-conference being organised by the World Bank and has attracted delegates from various countries including Brazil, Canada and Ghana. The World Bank is also helping the Haitian government update mining laws that have not been updated since 1976.