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.

StateJoinedListed 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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