CARICOM
The Caribbean poised for global competition through the CARICOM Single Market & Economy (CSME)
The people who live on the scattered islands and territories known as the Caribbean have always had a dream of economic integration and are now poised to realize that dream. In 1973, under the Treaty of Chaguaramas, the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) was born. “While the idea of community remains central to integration, the Common Market has today taken on an entirely different dimension,” states Ambassador Ellsworth John, chairman of the Conference of the Caribbean’s major organizing body, the Washington-based CARICOM Caucus of Ambassadors.

