Caribbean Community - Membership

Membership

See also: Member states of the Caribbean Community

Currently CARICOM has 15 full members, 5 associate members and 7 observers. All of the associate members are British overseas territories, and it is currently not established what the role of the associate members will be. The observers are states which engage in at least one of CARICOM's technical committees.

CARICOM Members

Status	Name	Join date	Notes
Full member	Antigua and Barbuda	4 July 1974
	Bahamas	4 July 1983	Not part of customs union
	Barbados	1 August 1973
	Belize	1 May 1974
	Dominica	1 May 1974
	Grenada	1 May 1974
	Guyana	1 August 1973
	Haiti	2 July 2002	Provisional membership on 4 July 1998
	Jamaica	1 August 1973
	Montserrat	1 May 1974	British overseas territory
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	26 July 1974	Joined as Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
	Saint Lucia	1 May 1974
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1 May 1974
	Suriname	4 July 1995
	Trinidad and Tobago	1 August 1973
Associate	Anguilla	July 1999	British overseas territory
	Bermuda	2 July 2003	British overseas territory
	British Virgin Islands	July 1991	British overseas territory
	Cayman Islands	16 May 2002	British overseas territory
	Turks and Caicos Islands	July 1991	British overseas territory
Observer	Aruba		Country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
	Colombia
	Curaçao		Country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands status unknown after dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
	Dominican Republic
	Mexico
	Puerto Rico		Commonwealth of the USA
	Sint Maarten		Country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands status unknown after dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
	Venezuela