CubaPLUS Magazine

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) today celebrates 51 years of creation, by virtue of the Treaty of Chaguaramas (Trinidad and Tobago), signed on July 4, 1973, with the objective of raising the standard of living and work of the nations of the area, end unemployment and accelerate, coordinate and sustain economic development.

In a message on its X account, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) greets the date and notes that “Today marks the 51st anniversary of the founding of CARICOM, a propitious occasion to reaffirm solidarity and maintain the spirit of unity and brotherhood of our Caribbean nations.”

Cuba maintains strong ties with the nations of the area in the field of economic and commercial collaboration, as well as in the training of human resources in construction, sports and health.

In this last sector, Cuban medical brigades have worked in several Caribbean nations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in times of disaster.

In turn, Caricom has supported Cuba in favor of lifting the economic boycott, financial and commercial imposed by the United States on the largest of the Antilles for more than six decades.

Headquartered in Georgetown, Caricom is made up of 15 member states: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as five associates: Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands British and Turks and Caicos Islands.