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Haiti News Media > Haiti News > Caribbean Community (CARICOM) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Originally The Caribbean Community And Common Market, Was Established By The Treaty Of Chaguaramas Which Came Into Effect On August 1, 1973. The first four signatories were Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
CARICOM replaced the 1965–1972 Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA), which had been organized to provide a continued economic linkage between the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean following the dissolution of the West Indies Federation which lasted from January 3, 1958 to May 31, 1962.
A Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) was signed by the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community on July 5 2001 at their Twenty-Second Meeting of the Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has become unofficially multilingual in practice with the addition of Dutch-speaking Suriname on July 4, 1995 and Haiti, where French and Haitian Creole are spoken, on July 2, 2002.
In 2001, the heads of government signed a Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas thus clearing the way for the transformation of the Common Market aspect of CARICOM. Part of the revised treaty includes the establishment and implementation of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
Currently CARICOM has 15 full members:
- Antigua and Barbuda (4 July 1974)
- Bahamas (4 July 1974)
- Barbados (1 August 1973)
- Belize (1 May 1974)
- Dominica (1 May 1974)
- Grenada (1 May 1974)
- Guyana (1 August 1973)
- Haiti (provisional membership on 4 July 1998, full membership on 2 July 2002)
- Jamaica (1 August 1973)
- Montserrat (a territory of the United Kingdom) (1 May 1974)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (26 July 1974 as Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla)
- Saint Lucia (1 May 1974)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1 May 1974)
- Suriname (4 July 1995)
- Trinidad and Tobago (1 August 1973)
There are five associate members:
- Anguilla (July 1999)
- Bermuda (2 July 2003)
- British Virgin Islands (July 1991)
- Cayman Islands (16 May 2002)
- Turks and Caicos Islands (July 1991)
There are seven observers:
- Aruba
- Colombia
- Dominican Republic
- Mexico
- Netherlands Antilles
- Puerto Rico
- Venezuela
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