Category: The Integrationist

  Watch this three-part documentary that focuses on the historical evolution and development of the Caribbean regional integration process. It allows for Caribbean people and those around the world to witness Caribbean leaders as they articulated their ideas and ideals and expressed their desire for political and psychological freedom. It also reveals how they determined… Continue reading Integrate or Perish: Perspectives of Leaders of the Caribbean Community (Documentary)

  By Professor Jessica Byron-Reid Regional integration in the Caribbean has always had an implicit security dimension. It has been driven by small state perceptions of their political and economic vulnerability vis-à-vis the external environment and the need for collective responses. Since 1973, a number of institutions have evolved to provide responses in the form… Continue reading CARICOM and Security Governance: Probing the Limits of Regional Cooperation

  Sustainable job creation for the majority of the Jamaican population has been an ongoing challenge for successive governments since Independence. The opening of the bauxite industry was a significant contributor to employment, benefiting a reasonably wide cross-section of the working class. However, the subsequent decline of the bauxite-alumina industry exacerbated unemployment, as has been… Continue reading Sustainable Job Creation in Jamaica: Challenges and the Path Forward

By Mr Joseph Goddard “I think that the present vision of CSME lacks any people dimension. It lacks a sense of a culture of history and motivation. It is just like about buying and selling goods and we waste a lot of our powers in just getting and spending. We are not focusing on what… Continue reading Labour and the CSME

  By Lucy Steward Since its establishment just over 25 years ago, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has contributed significantly to regional co-operation in education. In all aspects of its operation, CXC has brought together teachers, university and college lecturers, subject specialists and resource persons from the public and private sectors to participate in activities… Continue reading CARICOM In Education: CXC A Success

By The Integrationist Team Everybody has heard of the popular Dancehall styles, along with the likes of the Mambo and Limbo, however there are a whole range of traditional dances from the many islands of the Caribbean, Jonkonnu, Tambu, Oreisha, and Shango to name a few. Traditional Caribbean Dance   These dances have their roots… Continue reading Traditional Caribbean Dance

  By The Integrationist Functional co-operation predates the Caribbean Community. There has been contact between the various peoples of the Region in various ways and in different forms. For example, organisations which brought the civil servants of the Region and lawyers have existed long before functional co-operation formalised this kind of exchange. These exchanges have… Continue reading Functional Cooperation and the Caribbean: An Introduction

  By The Integrationist The Member States of the Caribbean Community are enjoined by the Treaty of Chaguaramas to present a common front to the external world, both in terms of politics and economics. While the Community’s record in this regard is not unblemished, there is much to be proud of. The Community and its… Continue reading Foreign Policy and the Caribbean: An Introduction

By The Integrationist By the time the Caribbean Community got down to work on giving practical effect to its stated purpose of fulfilling “within the shortest possible time the hopes and aspirations of the Caribbean Territories…” by means of Economic Integration, forces were gathering which would challenge its very existence. Indeed, the birth of the… Continue reading Economic Integration: An Introduction