CARICOM Basics
What year was CARICOM founded?
What is 1973?
What does OECS stand for?
What is Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
What was the primary goal of the West Indian Federation? "
To create a political union among Caribbean nations.
What does CARIFTA stand for?
What is the Caribbean Free Trade Association.
Define “integration.”
The process of combining parts into a whole, often referring to political or economic unification.
Name of CARICOM founding members.
What is Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, or Guyana.
In what year was the OECS established?
What it is 1981?
What year was the West Indian Federation established?
What is 1958?
When was CARIFTA established?
What is 1965?
What is “intra-regional trade”?
Trade that takes place within a specific region, such as between Caribbean countries.
What is the name of the treaty that established CARICOM?
What is Treaty of Chaguaramas?
Where is the OECS headquarters located?
What is Castries, Saint Lucia.
Name two of the West Indian Federation’s member countries.
What is Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, and Montserrat.
Name one primary goal of CARIFTA.
What is to promote free trade and economic development among Caribbean nations.
What does “federation” mean?
What is a union of multiple territories or states under a central government?
Which Caribbean organization is focused on free trade and economic integration?
What is CARICOM or CSME?
What is one main purpose of the OECS?
What is to promote economic harmonization and integration among member states?
What was one reason the West Indian Federation collapsed?
What is Differences in political and economic interests among the islands, especially between Jamaica and Trinidad?
Which four countries were the founding members of CARIFTA?
What is Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.
What is a “treaty”?
What is A formal agreement between two or more countries.
In which country is CARICOM’s headquarters located?
What is Guyana
Name three OECS member states.
What is Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Montserrat, Anguilla, and the British Virgin Islands?
Who was the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago at the time of the West Indian Federation’s collapse?
What is Dr. Eric Williams?
In what year did CARIFTA transition into CARICOM?
What is 1973?
Define “economic cooperation.”
The process by which countries work together to improve their economies and remove trade barriers.