* CARICOM Visa and Freedom of Travel during Cricket World Cup

The CARICOM Visa was applicable to the nationals of all countries except CARICOM member states ( other than Haiti ) and associate member states, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the overseas countries, territories or departments of these countries.

The CARICOM Visa could be obtained from the Embassies / Consulates of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago and in countries which have no CARICOM representatives, the applications forms could be obtained from the Embassies / Consulates of the United Kingdom.

Recent foreign policy initiatives include joining with the other Central American countries in signing the CONCAUSA Agreement on regional sustainable development and becoming a full member of the Central American Integration System ( SICA ) Belize is a member of CARICOM which was founded in 1973.

He was a member of the secretariat of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) from March 1995 until he was elected leader of the Labour Party.

However, this was pushed back in order to speed up the implementation process for the Caribbean ( CARICOM ) Single Market and Economy, and the focus of his term was directed to the hosting of Cricket World Cup 2007.

Haiti, also a CARICOM member, was expected to be given certain additional trade preferences with the US under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act before Congress adjourned during 2006.

The Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) was created " To provide dynamic leadership and service, in partnership with Community institutions and Groups, toward the attainment of a viable, internationally competitive and sustainable Community, with improved quality of life for all ".

L ' Esperance was a major proponent for literacy within the CARICOM, and offered her visage to the product to promote reading in English speaking countries.

Those who suggest it is unsuccessful note how by the end of the 1990s, unlike CARICOM, the ACS had failed to establish a track record which was worthy enough to allow for the evaluation of the ACS as a developmental coalition.

The founding document of CARICOM, the Treaty of Chaguaramas, was signed by the so-called " Big Four " states: Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago, all of which had gained their political independence from the UK during the 1960s.

The agreement was signed on that date by the CARICOM states of: Antigua & Barbuda ; Barbados ; Belize ; Grenada ; Guyana ; Jamaica ; St. Kitts & Nevis ; St. Lucia ; Suriname ; and Trinidad & Tobago.

Again in Jamaica, just a month later, at the VI Commonwealth Caribbean Heads of Government, the heads agreed to take action on relinquishing the Privy Council as the Anglophone Caribbean ’ s last appeal court and mandated a committee of CARICOM attorneys-general to further explore the question of the establishment of what was then being called a " Caribbean Court of Appeal ".

A monument was erected at Payne's Bay, Saint James, Barbados, to the memory of the people killed in the bombing, and it was visited several times by Fidel Castro and other Cuban and Venezuelan officials, including a visit during the CARICOM meeting in December 2005 during which Cuban officials called for Posada " to be brought to justice so as to bring closure to this egregious incident that caused so much pain to the people of the region.

On 23 February 2004, the United Nations Security Council was convened at the request of CARICOM for the first time in four years to address the deteriorating situation in Haiti.

In later years, Sir George served as Deputy Prime Minister and was responsible for numerous government ministries including Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs and CARICOM Affairs.

He drew upon his expertise in law and trade, to steer the regional body toward the development of a Caribbean jurisprudence through the Caribbean Court of Justice, and a borderless regional economy through the CARICOM Single Market, which came to fruition in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

Bienvenu suggested a demarche to CARICOM countries by the U. S. and EU to warn them against facilitating any travel or other plans Aristide might have ....

The majority of the new CARICOM passports as they are called serve the union as a centre-piece of promoting easy travel within the Caribbean Single Market and Economy ( CSME ).

* 2002 – The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be " CARICOM-Cuba Day "— to celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and Cuba.

The two nations continue their cooperation through the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and work towards building and maintaining good relations between their nationals.

* CARICOM Single Market, the first phase of CARICOM Single Market and Economy, a single market union between most Caribbean States

Regional trade in services agreements are also negotiated and signed between regional economic groupings such as CARICOM, North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) and ASEAN.

Eight years later CARIFTA evolved into the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ), when Barrow, together with Forbes Burnham of Guyana, Dr. Eric Williams of Trinidad & Tobago and Michael Manley of Jamaica enacted the Treaty of Chaguaramas to bolster political and economic relations between the English-speaking Caribbean territories.

As a member of CARICOM, in July 1994 Dominica strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

Grenada is a member of the Caribbean Development Bank, CARICOM, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ), and the Commonwealth of Nations.

As a member of CARICOM Grenada strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

It played an important role in the founding of the Caribbean Community and Common Market ( CARICOM ), but its status as the organization's poorest member limits its ability to exert leadership in regional activities.

It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations and several of its specialized and related agencies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Organization of American States, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Eastern Caribbean Regional Security System ( RSS ), and the Caribbean Community and Common Market ( CARICOM ) and Non Aligned Movement.

As a member of CARICOM, St. Kitts and Nevis strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

St. Lucia is a beneficiary of the U. S. Caribbean Basin Initiative and is a member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market ( CARICOM ).

St. Lucia is a beneficiary of the U. S. Caribbean Basin Initiative and is a member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market ( CARICOM ) and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ).

Saint Lucia is a member of several internal organizations, including the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organization of American States, the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ).

As a member of CARICOM, St. Lucia strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to restore democracy to Haiti.

As a member of CARICOM, St. Vincent and the Grenadines strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement UN Security Council Resolution 940, designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

A member of CARICOM, Suriname also exports in small numbers rice, shrimp, timber, bananas, fruits, and vegetables.

As a member of CARICOM, Trinidad and Tobago strongly backed efforts by the United States to bring political stability to Haiti, contributing personnel to the Multinational Force in 1994.

Dominica is also a member of the 15-member Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ).

As a member of CARICOM Belize strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 940 designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti's de facto authorities from power.

Aruba is an observer in the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ), an associate member of the World Trade Organization through the Netherlands and is a full member of the Association of Caribbean States.

Although the Bahamas participates in the political aspects of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ), it has not entered into joint economic initiatives with other Caribbean states.

* Currency for Caribbean area — CARICOM states except the Bahamas.

Closer to the city is the newly-expanded Ogle Airport, with a new terminal facility geared to handle regional international and inter-Caricom flights, connecting CARICOM states with the CARICOM Secretariat.

This is a major opportunity for this nation to develop a strong tourism industry as has several of its sister CARICOM states.

On the other, it exercises an appellate jurisdiction, as a final court of appeal for CARICOM member states, replacing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ( JCPC ) for Anglophone member states.