Date CARICOM came into effect
August 1, 1973
Meaning of CXC and the area of functional cooperation in which it operates.
What is Caribbean Examination Council? What is Education?
Name this member state:
Trinidad and Tobago
Meaning of the acronym CARIFTA
What is the Caribbean Free Trade Association?
Two features of the CARICOM passport
What are; the CARICOM logo, the words “Caribbean Community”, The Coat of Arms of the Member State
and The name of the member state
First attempt and regional integration and the year it was established
What is the West Indies Federation, 1958?
This CARICOM institution provides assistance during and after natural disasters
What is CDEMA?
The three (3) member states which have names beginning with saint/st.
What are St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines & St. Lucia?
What is a CARICOM passport?
A CARICOM passport is a passport which features the CARICOM Logo as well as the word "Caribbean Community", on the front page. The passport allows for hassle-free intra-regional travel.
Meaning of the CARICOM logo
Unity and the break with our colonial past/freedom.
Location of the Secretariat
In Georgetown, Guyana?
This institution assists member states to improve their agricultural practices.
What is the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI)
The current CARICOM Secretary General is from this member sate
What is Belize?
improving economic development of member states through free trade. This involves the removal of trade barriers such as customs duties, quotas and tariffs.
What is Economic Integration?
Name of the CARICOM song and the person who wrote it.
What is "Celebrating CARICOM", writen by Ms. Michele Henderson.
True or False: CARICOM was formed because CARIFTA failed
False - CARIFTA did not fail it was transformed into CARICOM
The Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) and the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute (CEHI) are two(2) of the five (5) institutions which merged to form this CARICOM institution.
CARPHA
Two non-English speaking countries that are a part of the Caribbean Community.
What are Haiti and Suriname?
the sharing of services and the undertaking of joint activities in order to reduce cost and benefit from the strengths of each other to achieve common goals.
Functional Cooperation
This CARICOM symbol came about as a result of a competition
What is the CARICOM song?
Main objectives of the Caribbean Community.
What are:
Functional Co-operation - share resources to reduce cost
Political Co-operation - coordinate foreign policy
Economic Co-operation - free trade
Name the main UWI campuses and state where they are located.
Mona- Jamaica
Cavehill- Barbados
St. Augustine- Trinidad and Tobago
The Treaty of Chaguaramus was signed in this member state.
What is Trinidad and Tobago?
What is CARICOM?
CARICOM is an attempt by the countries of the Caribbean region to integrate in order to achieve political, economic and social objectives.Through Caribbean Integration, they have managed to form a customs union and are now on their way to becoming full a common market.
Explain the CARICOM standard.
The light blue represents the sky and the darker blue the Caribbean Sea. The yellow in the centre represents the sun and the two interlocking C's in the middle is the CARICOM logo. The thin ring of green around the sun represents the vegetation of the region.