14 Facts About CARICOM

CARICOM was established by the English-speaking parts of the Caribbean and currently includes all the independent anglophone island countries plus Belize, Guyana and Montserrat, as well as all other British Caribbean territories and Bermuda as associate members.

In July 2012, CARICOM announced they considered making French and Dutch official languages.

Currently, CARICOM has 15 full members, five associate members and eight observers.

Countries of CARICOM which are designated as Less Developed Countries are:.

Countries of CARICOM which are designated as More Developed Countries are:.

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CARICOM contains a quasi-Cabinet of the individual Heads of Government.

Second-place entry titled My CARICOM came from Jamaican Adiel Thomas who won US$5,000, and a third-place song titled One CARICOM by Carmella Lawrence of St Kitts and Nevis, won US$2,500.

Celebration of CARICOM Day is the selected day some Caribbean Community countries officially recognise the commemorative date of signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, the agreement that established CARICOM on July 4,1973.

Haiti's membership in CARICOM remained effectively suspended from 29 February 2004 through early June 2006 following the 2004 Haitian coup d'etat and the removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from the presidency.

CARICOM announced that no democratically elected government in CARICOM should have its leader deposed.

CARICOM thus voted on suspending the participation of Haitian officials from the councils of CARICOM.

CARICOM was instrumental in the formation of the Association of Caribbean States on 24 July 1994.

CARICOM accepted the commission's recommendations and opened dialogue with other Caribbean states, the Central American states and the Latin American nations of Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico which border the Caribbean, for consultation on the proposals of the West Indian Commission.

CARICOM was involved in the formation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States on 3 December 2010.