Editing Caribbean Community (section)

== History ==
CARICOM, originally The Caribbean Community and Common Market, was established by the [[Treaty of Chaguaramas]] which took effect on 1 August 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title=Original Treaty of Chaguaramas |url=http://www.caricomlaw.org/doc.php?id=21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011055645/http://www.caricomlaw.org/doc.php?id=21 |archive-date=11 October 2007}}</ref> Founding states were [[Barbados]], [[Jamaica]], [[Guyana]] and [[Trinidad and Tobago]].

The Caribbean Community superseded the 1965–1972 [[Caribbean Free Trade Association]] organised to provide a continued economic linkage between the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean after the dissolution of the [[West Indies Federation]], which lasted from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.

A revised Treaty of Chaguaramas established ''The Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy'' and was signed by the [[CARICOM Heads of Government]] of the Caribbean Community on 5 July 2001 at their Twenty-Second Meeting of the Conference in Nassau, The [[Bahamas]].<ref name="revised_chaguaramas2">{{cite web |title=Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas |url=http://www.caricom.org/jsp/community/revised_treaty-text.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110061815/http://www.caricom.org/jsp/community/revised_treaty-text.pdf |archive-date=10 November 2011}}</ref> The revised treaty cleared the way to transform the idea of a [[common market]] CARICOM into the [[CARICOM Single Market and Economy|Caribbean (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy]].

Haiti's membership in CARICOM remained effectively suspended from 29 February 2004 through early June 2006 following the [[2004 Haitian coup d'état]] and the removal of [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]] from the presidency.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/aristide-accuses-u-s-of-forcing-him-out-1.502442
|title=Aristide accuses U.S. of forcing him out
|publisher=Canadian Broadcast Corporation
|date=2 March 2004
|access-date=25 March 2011
|archive-date=24 September 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924063446/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/aristide-accuses-u-s-of-forcing-him-out-1.502442
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3587777.stm
|title=Aristide launches kidnap lawsuit
|work=BBC News
|date=31 March 2004
|access-date=25 March 2011
|archive-date=9 December 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111209032804/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3587777.stm
|url-status=live
}}</ref> CARICOM announced that no democratically elected government in CARICOM should have its leader deposed. The fourteen other heads of government sought to have Aristide fly from Africa to Jamaica and share his account of events with them, which infuriated the interim Haitian prime minister, [[Gérard Latortue]], who announced he would take steps to take Haiti out of CARICOM.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/forum/webbbs_config.pl?md=read;id=1721|title=Haiti suspends ties with CARICOM|website=www.trinidadandtobagonews.com|accessdate=14 April 2024}}</ref> CARICOM thus voted on suspending the participation of Haitian officials from the councils of CARICOM.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1721
|title=Haiti suspends ties with CARICOM
|publisher=Trinidadandtobagonews.com
|access-date=25 March 2011
|archive-date=22 September 2009
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922080811/http://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1721
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060210/carib/carib2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923204656/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060210/carib/carib2.html |work=[[The Gleaner]] |title=Haiti could return to CARICOM|date=2006-02-10|archive-date=2010-09-23}}</ref> Following the presidential election of [[René Préval]], Haitian officials were readmitted and Préval himself gave the opening address at the CARICOM Council of Ministers meeting in July.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/02/060209_haitipollupdate.shtml|title=BBCCaribbean.com &#124; Haitian results in next two days|website=www.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=14 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061008/focus/focus5.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923204701/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061008/focus/focus5.html|title= Caricom and Haiti: The raising of the Caribbean's 'Iron Curtain'|date=2006-10-08|archive-date=2010-09-23|work=[[The Gleaner]]}}</ref>

Since 2013 the CARICOM-bloc and with the Dominican Republic have been tied to the [[European Union]] via an [[Economic Partnership Agreements]] signed in 2008 known as [[CARIFORUM]].<ref name="cpdcngo.org"/> The treaty grants all members of the European Union and CARIFORUM equal rights in terms of trade and investment. Under Article 234 of the agreement, the [[European Court of Justice]] handles dispute resolution between CARIFORUM and European Union states.<ref name="jamaica-gleaner.com"/>