CARICOM - The Caribbean Community

Members:

• Antigua & Barbuda
• The Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Dominica
• Grenadines
• Suriname
• Trinidad and Tobago

(The Bahamas is part of the community but not the Common market)

Associate members:

• Anguilla
• Bermuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Turks & Caicos Islands

Objectives:

• Improved standards of living and work;
• Full employment of labour and other factors of production;
• Accelerated, co-ordinated and sustained economic development and convergence;
• Expansion of trade and economic relations with third States;
• Enhanced levels of international competitiveness;
• Organisation for increased production and productivity;
• Achievement of a greater measure of economic leverage and effectiveness of Member States in dealing with third States, groups of States and entities of any description;
• Enhanced co-ordination of Member States' foreign and [foreign] economic policies; and
• Enhanced functional co-operation, including -

• Efficient operation of common services and activities for the benefit of its peoples
• Accelerated promotion of greater understanding among its peoples and the advancement of their social, cultural and technological development
• Intensified activities in areas such as health, education, transportation, telecommunications.

Resources:

www.caricom.org