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Haiti

​Haiti became the Caribbean Community’s newest member on 2 July 2002 some four years after provisional membership had been granted.

In October 2007 the CARICOM Representation Office in Haiti (CROH) was established with the mandate of assisting the Government of Haiti to implement the terms of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM) as early as possible. The CROH operates as part of a project, funded by the Government of Canada, termed the “CARICOM Trade and Competitiveness Project (CTCP) in the CARICOM Region”.

CARICOM-UNSCR 1540 Capacity-building Initiatives

​ The CARICOM-UNSCR 1540 Implementation Programme has undertaken several major initiatives over the past year to prevent proliferation in the CBRN domain and to simultaneously strengthen regional response and interdiction capacity in relation to conventional security challenges, such as illegal weapons and narcotics trafficking. These initiatives are as follows -

    Commodity Identification Training (CIT)

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1540

​The CARICOM-United Nations 1540 Implementation Programme is a Region-wide initiative which assists CARICOM Member States in meeting their obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) and involves the implementation of strategic trade legislation – including domestic import and export laws – to prevent the transit, trans-shipment, import, export, re-export or brokering of dual-use materials that can be used in the development of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) weapons and related materials.

The Current Challenge

​CARICOM Member States, like the majority of countries within the United Nations system, largely lack the necessary legal foundations upon which to build and enforce an effective regional system of export controls and border security as mandated by UNSCR 1540 and subsequent United Nations resolutions. Despite endorsement of non-proliferation objectives by CARICOM Member States, regional implementation of the UNSCR 1540 is still lagging.

External Security Cooperation

​Cooperation with the US - The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative(CBSI)

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United States have enjoyed longstanding, co-operative and mutually beneficial relations - a recent manifestation of this being the launch of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI).  Caribbean Governments have long realised that it was not feasible to address the issue of crime and crime-related activities without the support and input of the United States.

INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS

​There are five institutions established to facilitate implementation of the Agreement. They are as follows:

    - The Joint CARIFORUM-EU Council

    - The CARIFORUM-EU Trade and Development Committee

    - The Special Committee on Customs Cooperation and Trade Facilitation

    - The CARIFORUM-EU Parliamentary Committee

    - The CARIFORUM-EU Consultative Committee

The Single Market and UWI Graduates by Professor Norman Girvan

On January 30, 2006, at an historic ceremony on the UWI Mona Campus, the leaders of six CARICOM countries signed a declaration of compliance with the CARICOM Single Market. They were Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Six other countries, members of the Organisation of East Caribbean States (OECS), have undertaken to become Single Market compliant no later than June 30 of this year. These are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and Grenadines.

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