An overview of the operations and governance of the Eastern Caribbean Economic Union and the benefits for the Member States.

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Inter-governmental Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean.

The prospect of the UK formulating its own trade policy following Brexit is likely to have implications for the existing Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union (EU) and some African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, and the UK’s future trading arrangements with the ACP.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is a grouping of twenty countries: fifteen Member States and five Associate Members. It is home to approximately sixteen million citizens, 60% of whom are under the age of 30, and from the main ethnic groups of Indigenous Peoples, Africans, Indians, Europeans, Chinese, Portuguese and Javanese.

An association of 15 Caribbean nations devoted to economic integration and cooperation.

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Caribbean Community, there was a call for an anthem of CARICOM. The lyrics and music of Michele Henderson from Dominica has been successfully selected for the CARICOM Anthem.