International organisation
Caribbean Community
The Caribbean's community and single market -- fifteen full members, a shared court of last resort for some, and free movement for all.
- Abbreviation
- CARICOM
- Founded
- 1973-06-04
- Headquarters
- Georgetown
- Member states
- 14 resolved, 15 published by the organisation
- Official site
- https://www.caricom.org/
The two counts differ. Caribbean Community publishes 15 members; 14 resolved against the 193 states this site has checked. Sometimes that is a disagreement about what counts as a member state — a non-UN state, a territory, a suspended member — and sometimes the compiled source lacks a current statement for a real one. Either way the gap is shown rather than smoothed over, because a table that quietly shows one number cannot be checked against the other.
CARICOM's fifteen full members include Montserrat, a British overseas territory rather than a UN member state, which does not appear in the table below.
Member states
Ordered by accession. A state with no recorded date is listed last rather than given one.
A joining date is the one the source records, which may be the day a treaty was signed or the day it took effect. States that joined together can therefore differ by months here.
| State | Joined | Listed by the source as |
|---|---|---|
| Barbados | 1973-08-01 | — |
| Guyana | 1973-08-01 | — |
| Jamaica | 1973-08-01 | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1973-08-01 | — |
| Belize | 1974-05-01 | — |
| Dominica | 1974-05-01 | — |
| Grenada | 1974-05-01 | — |
| Saint Lucia | 1974-05-01 | — |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1974-05-01 | — |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 1974-07-04 | — |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1974-07-26 | — |
| The Bahamas | 1983-07-04 | — |
| Suriname | 1995-07-04 | — |
| Haiti | 2002-07-01 | — |
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