CARICOM

CARICOM
 

News: Dr. S Jaishankar recently co-chaired the 4th India-CARICOM ministerial meeting with his Jamaican counterpart.
 

About CARICOM:
 CARICOM, which stands for Caribbean Community, is the oldest surviving integration movement in the developing world.
 It is an organization of Caribbean countries and dependencies originally established as the Caribbean Community and Commons Market in 1973 by the Treaty of Chaguaramas.
 It works to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, it ensures that the benefits of integration are equitably shared.
 

Members:
 It has 15 members; Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
 Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands have associate member status
 While Aruba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela maintain observer status.
 Secretariat: The CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, is the principal administrative organ of the Community and is headed by a Secretary General who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Commun