A report on Caribbean Community

Exclusive Economic Zones of the member states of the CARICOM. Considering them, the total area reaches the 2 300 297 km².

Intergovernmental organization that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) throughout the Caribbean having primary objectives to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy.

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Caribbean

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Region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

Map of Caribbean region, including dependencies

A Cuban PT-76 tank crew performing routine security duties in Angola during the Cuban intervention into the country

Tropical monsoon climate in San Andrés island, Caribbean, Colombia.

Köppen climate map of the islands of the Caribbean.

A field in Pinar del Rio planted with Cuban tobacco

Puerto Rico's south shore, from the mountains of Jayuya

A church cemetery perched in the mountains of Guadeloupe

A view of Nevis island from the southeastern peninsula of Saint Kitts

Spanish Caribbean Islands in the American Viceroyalties 1600

Political evolution of Central America and the Caribbean from 1700 to present

The mostly Spanish-controlled Caribbean in the 16th century

Cayo de Agua, Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela

Palancar Beach in Cozumel Island, Mexico

Agostino Brunias. Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape Brooklyn Museum

Asian Indians in the late nineteenth century singing and dancing in Trinidad and Tobago

Havana Cathedral (Catholic) in Cuba completed in 1777

Holy Trinity Cathedral, an Anglican Christian cathedral in Trinidad and Tobago

Temple in the Sea, a Hindu mandir in Trinidad and Tobago

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Memorial Masjid, a Muslim masjid in Trinidad and Tobago

Flag of the Caribbean Common Market and Community (CARICOM)

Doubles, one of the national dishes of Trinidad and Tobago

Arroz con gandules, one of the national dishes of Puerto Rico

thumb|Counter-attack by Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces supported by T-34 tanks near Playa Giron during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, 19 April 1961.

thumb|A Marine heavy machine gunner monitors a position along the international neutral corridor in Santo Domingo, 1965.

thumb|A Soviet-made BTR-60 armored personnel carrier seized by US forces during Operation Urgent Fury (1983)

thumb|US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, Bell AH-1 Cobra and Bell OH-58 Kiowa helicopters on deck of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) off Haiti, 1994.

Epiphytes (bromeliads, climbing palms) in the rainforest of Dominica.

A green and black poison frog, Dendrobates auratus

Costus speciosus, a marsh plant, Guadeloupe.

An Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) in Martinique.

Crescentia cujete, or calabash fruit, Martinique.

Thalassoma bifasciatum (bluehead wrasse fish), over Bispira brunnea (social feather duster worms).

Two Stenopus hispidus (banded cleaner shrimp) on a Xestospongia muta (giant barrel sponge).

A pair of Cyphoma signatum (fingerprint cowry), off coastal Haiti.

The Martinique amazon, Amazona martinicana, is an extinct species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.

Anastrepha suspensa, a Caribbean fruit fly.

Hemidactylus mabouia, a tropical gecko, in Dominica Edited by: Taniya Brooks.

Precolombian languages of the Antilles.Ciboney Taíno, Classic Taíno, and Iñeri were Arawakan, Karina and Yao were Cariban. Macorix, Ciguayo and Guanahatabey are unclassified.

The Battle of the Saintes between British and French fleets in 1782, by Nicholas Pocock

The mostly Spanish-controlled Caribbean in the 18th century

At its core is the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), whose full members include the Commonwealth of the Bahamas in the Atlantic, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Republic of Suriname in South America, and Belize in Central America; its associate members include Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Caribbean Court of Justice

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The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ; Caribisch Hof van Justitie; Cour Caribéenne de Justice ) is the judicial institution of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Belize

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Caribbean country on the northeastern coast of Central America.

An excerpt from the 1898 Gazette that declared 10 September an official holiday, part of the efforts of the Centennial Committee

Colonial flag of British Honduras, 1870–1919

Colonial flag of British Honduras, 1919–1981

A British Honduras postage stamp overprinted in 1962 to mark Hurricane Hattie

A British Royal Marine training in the jungle of Belize in 2017

Belizean Coast Guard working with the United States Navy

Belizean jungles are home to the jaguar and many other mammals. Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary was founded in 1990 as the first wilderness sanctuary for the jaguar and is regarded by one author as the premier site for jaguar preservation in the world.

Scarlet macaws are native to Central and northern South America. Various bird sanctuaries exist in Belize, such as the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary.

Belize Barrier Reef; aerial view looking north

The Great Blue Hole, a phenomenon of karst topography

A proportional representation of Belize's exports in 2019

A sugar cane processing plant, Orange Walk Town, Belize. Sugar is one of Belize's top exports.

Belize has a wide diversity of ethnicities.

Traditional Garifuna dancers in Dangriga, Belize

Mennonite children selling peanuts near Lamanai in Belize. Over 12,000 Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites live in Belize, farming the land and living according to their religious beliefs.

Rice and beans (with coconut milk), stewed chicken and potato salad. An inter-ethnic staple meal.

Accomplished Belizean cyclist Shalini Zabaneh

It is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and the Central American Integration System (SICA), the only country to hold full membership in all three regional organizations.

Suriname

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Country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.

Maroon village, along Suriname River, 1955

Javanese immigrants brought as contract workers from the Dutch East Indies. Picture was taken between 1880 and 1900.

Henck Arron, Beatrix and Johan Ferrier on 25 November 1975

Brokopondo Reservoir surrounded by tropical rainforest

The Coppename river, one of many rivers in the interior

Leatherback sea turtle on the beach near the village of Galibi

Disputed areas shown on the map of Suriname (left and right, gray areas)

Suriname map of Köppen climate classification

The blue poison dart frog is endemic to Suriname.

A proportional representation of Suriname exports, 2019

The population of Suriname from 1961 to 2003, in units of 1000. The slowdown and decline in population growth ~1969–1985 reflects a mass migration to the Netherlands and French Guiana.

Synagogue and mosque adjacent to each other in Paramaribo

Butcher in the Central Market in Paramaribo with signs written in Dutch

Central Suriname Nature Reserve seen from the Voltzberg

The Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Paramaribo

Suriname is considered a culturally Caribbean country, and is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Guyana

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Country on the northern mainland of South America.

Kaieteur Falls is the world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume.

Anomaloglossus beebei (Kaieteur), specific to the Guianas

The hoatzin is the national bird of Guyana.

A tractor in a rice field on Guyana's coastal plain

A proportional representation of Guyana exports, 2019

Guyana's population density in 2005 (people per km2)

A graph showing the population of Guyana from 1961 to 2003. The population decline in the 1980s can be clearly seen.

The State House, Guyana's presidential residence

Map of Guyana, showing the Essequibo River and (shaded dark) the river's drainage basin. Venezuela claims territory up to the western bank of the river. The historical claim by the UK included the river basin well into current-day Venezuela.

Cross-border bridge from Guyana to Brazil near Lethem

Providence Stadium as seen from the East Bank Highway

It is part of the mainland Caribbean region maintaining strong cultural, historical, and political ties with other Caribbean countries as well as serving as the headquarters for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Georgetown, Guyana

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Capital and largest city of Guyana.

Wesleyan Mission Premises, George-Town, Demerara (1850)

A view of the Kingston section of Georgetown in the 19th century.

View of Georgetown from over the Atlantic Ocean

Providence Stadium hosted several 2007 Cricket World Cup matches, replacing Bourda as the national stadium and test venue

The CARICOM headquarters is also based in Georgetown.

Treaty of Chaguaramas

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The Treaty of Chaguaramas established the Caribbean Community and Common Market, popularly known as CARICOM.

Bermuda

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British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

First map of the islands of Bermuda in 1511, made by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera in his book Legatio Babylonica

John Smith wrote one of the first histories of Bermuda in 1624 (combined with Virginia and New England).

Map of Bermuda by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1 January 1692

Bermuda Gazette of 12 November 1796, calling for privateering against Spain and its allies; it has advertisements for crew for two privateer vessels.

An illustration of the Devonshire Redoubt, Bermuda, 1614

Mullet Bay and the harbour at St. George's, the original capital

Winston Churchill hosted the Three-Powers Summit in 1953

The in Hamilton Harbour, c. Dec 1952 / Jan 1953

The S.S. Queen of Bermuda departing the island in December 1952 / January 1953. The Devonshire Dock is in the foreground.

View of Bermuda from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse in July 2015

View from the top of Gibb's Hill Lighthouse

NOAA Ocean Explorer Bermuda Geologic Map, where red denotes the Walsingham Formation, purple denotes the Town Hill and Belmont Formations, green denotes the Rocky Bay and Southampton Formations, and white is fill associated with the airport

1904 view across Hamilton Harbour from Fort Hamilton of cedar-cloaked hills in Paget Parish

Residential suburb near the old St. George's Garrison, with "Town Cut Battery" or "Gate's Fort" on the shore of the Town Cut, and St. George's Town and harbour in the background

White-eyed vireo (Vireo griseus bermudianus)

The image of the Lord Holy Christ of the Miracles, in Hamilton, venerated by Azoreans in Bermuda

The State House in St. George's, the home of Bermuda's parliament between 1620 and 1815

The Sessions House in Hamilton, current home of the House of Assembly and the Supreme Court

A British passport as issued by the Department of Immigration of the Government of Bermuda on behalf of the Passport Office of the Government of the United Kingdom, and often erroneously described as a Bermudian passport

Military Governors and Staff Officers in British North America and West Indies 1778 and 1784

The First Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps Contingent, raised in 1914. By the war's end, the two BVRC contingents had lost over 75% of their combined strength.

Remembrance Day Parade, Hamilton, Bermuda

HMS Ambuscade at the Royal Naval Dockyard in 1988

A proportional representation of Bermuda exports, 2019

Bermuda electricity production by source

One of Bermuda's pink-sand beaches at Astwood Park

View of Harrington Sound from behind Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo

Gombey dancers from Bermuda at the 2001 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C.

An IOD racer on a mooring in Hamilton Harbour

It is an associate member of the Caribbean Community.

Montserrat

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British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.

A view of half of the coastline of Little Bay, and a glimpse of Carrs Bay, taken from partway up the headland between Little Bay and Rendezvous Bay, 2012

Parishes St. Peter (red) St. Georges (green) St. Anthony (cyan) <abbr title="abandoned and destroyed former capital city">Plymouth (◾)

Eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on 22 September 1997

Plymouth City (former capital and major port of Montserrat) on 12 July 1997, after pyroclastic flows burned much of what was not covered in ash

False-colour time-lapse images of the Soufrière Hills volcanic dome collapse in 2010, from NASA

Devastated Plymouth City and volcano (2003)

The MV Caribe Queen is a Nevis ferry boat which shuttles passengers between Antigua and Montserrat several times a week

A proportional representation of Montserrat exports, 2019

The Montserrat Cultural Centre overlooking Little Bay

Surfer brothers Carrll and Gary Robilotta at Isle's Bay, Montserrat

Little Bay, the site of the new capital. The project was funded by the UK's Department for International Development.

Montserrat is the only non-fully sovereign full member of the Caribbean Community and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.

Trinidad and Tobago

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Southernmost island country in the Caribbean.

Sir Walter Raleigh raiding Spanish settlement in Trinidad in 1595

A medallion showing the capture of Trinidad and Tobago by the British in 1797.

Newly arrived indentured Indian labourers in Trinidad and Tobago.

Colonial flag of Trinidad and Tobago, 1889–1958

The Queen on 1953 stamps of Trinidad and Tobago

A soldier at Waller Air Force Base, leased by Britain to America in the 1940s

Mayaro Beach, in the southeastern area of Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago is a major nesting site for Leatherback Turtles

Regional corporations and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago

The 26-meter Hanuman murti in Carapichaima, a noted centre of Hindu and Indo-Trinidadian culture; it is the largest statue of Hanuman outside of India

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

A proportional representation of Trinidad and Tobago exports, 2019

An intersection of Churchill–Roosevelt Highway and Uriah Butler Highway, 2009

The state-owned Caribbean Airlines is the largest in the region.

Divali Nagar entrance in Chaguanas; Divali Nagar is one of the largest Diwali celebration outside India

Nicki Minaj, a Trinidadian-born rapper, is now the best selling female rapper of all time.

Tassa is a percussion ensemble of Indian origin that is popular in Trinidad and Tobago.

Brian Lara batting for the West Indies against India

The Chaconia (Warszewiczia coccinea) is the national flower of Trinidad and Tobago

On 1 August 1973, the country became a founding member state of CARIFTA's successor, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which is a political and economic union between several Caribbean countries and territories.