CARICOM

About CARICOM

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organization of fifteen states and dependencies throughout the Caribbean

The primary objectives are: to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared and to coordinate foreign policy.

Read more about Caricom on the following website: https://caricom.org/

Member States

Member states of Caricom are:

Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Commonwealth of Dominica
Grenada
Republic of Haiti
Montserrat
Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Barbados
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Jamaica
Republic of Suriname
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

AI in CariCom

The burgeoning adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a transformative, yet complex, opportunity for CARICOM nations. While AI technologies offer immense potential to enhance efficiency, drive innovation, and improve public services across diverse sectors like agriculture, tourism, and finance within the fifteen member states, their effective implementation is heavily reliant on a clear understanding and optimization of underlying operational frameworks. This is where Business Process Modeling (BPM) becomes indispensable. Many CARICOM countries, with their unique economic structures and often nascent digital infrastructures, urgently need to leverage BPM to thoroughly analyze, document, and standardize their existing processes before integrating AI. Without this foundational clarity, AI deployment risks automating inefficiencies or exacerbating existing systemic issues rather than truly streamlining operations. Therefore, a concerted regional effort to champion BPM across all governmental, public, and private sectors is crucial to unlock AI's full potential, ensuring sustainable growth, equitable benefits, and robust economic integration throughout the Caribbean Community.

To explore how AI and Business Process Modeling can transform operations within CARICOM, you can find more information on our dedicated page: discover-suriname.com/AI-BPMN. Additionally, learn more about AI in enterprise architecture and business process management at dragon1.com/ai.

Trade Agreements

Being a company inside Caricom enables making use of the treaties and trade agreements Caricom has.

In October 2008 Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic signed the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU.

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/caribbean/

On March 22, 2019, CARIFORUM Member Countries began signing an economic partnership agreement with the United Kingdom. The countries that will be covered by the CARIFORUM-UK EPA are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bahamas, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.

http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/CAR_GBR/CAR_GBR_e.ASP