Description
This book provides the reader with an overview of the CARICOM economic integration system of regional co-operation and the primary agreements encompassing the basis of regional cooperation through identification of legal regimes expressed to constitute the CARICOM System. Most of these regimes post-date the ill-fated experiment in West Indian Federalism and, collectively, describe the institutional development of the political entities comprising the Commonwealth Caribbean in the period after 1962. In this context, it focuses on the earliest attempts at regional economic integration and the intensification of functional cooperation, both of which appeared at a critical time to offer better prospects for regional development than political integration. Central to these developments were the initiatives at regional economic integration, commencing with the Dickenson Bay Agreement in 1965, followed by CARIFTA in 1968 and culminating in the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973 establishing the Caribbean Community and Common Market.
About the Author
Duke Pollard is a sitting senior judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice
(CCJ), the highest appellate municipal court of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Contents
PART 1: BACKGROUND TO THE CARICOM SYSTEM
- Background to the CARICOM System
PART 2: EARLY BEGINNINGS
- University of the West Indies
- University of Guyana
- Caribbean Free Trade Association
- Council of Legal Education
- Caribbean Development Bank
- Caribbean Examinations Council
- West Indies Shipping Corporation
- Harmonisation of Fiscal Incentives
- Caribbean Community and Common Market
PART 3: ECONOMIC INTEGRATION REGIMES
- Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians
- CARICOM Social Security Agreement
- Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute
- Caribbean Food Corporation
- CARICOM Enterprise Regime
- Double Taxation Agreement
- Caribbean Export Development Agency
- Caribbean Investment Fund
- CARICOM Multilateral Clearing Facility
- Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
- Eastern Caribben Central Bank
- Caribbean Court of Justice
- The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas
PART 4: FUNCTIONAL CO-OPERATION REGIMES
- Caribbean Environmental Health Institute
- Caribbean Regional Drug Testing Laboratory
- Caribbean Meteorological Organisation
- Caribbean Centre for Development Administration
- CARICOM Foundation for Art and Culture
- Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
- Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism
- CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality
- Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency
- Caribbean Tourism Organisation
- Caribbean Telecommunications Union
- Regional Education Programme for Animal Health Assistants
- Caribbean Epidemiology Centre
PART 5: FOREIGN POLICY CO-ORDINATION
- Institute of International Relations
PART 6: CONCLUSION
- Prospects for Consolidation and Development
