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Caribbean Community

General information

Name	Caribbean Community
Administrative center	Seat of Secretariat
Largest city	Port-au-Prince
Official languages	3 title=3 Dutch English French
Ethnic groups	7 title=7 Afro-Caribbean Indo-Caribbean Mulatto Chinese Amerindian European Mixed
Membership	15 Participating members title=15 Participating members Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Haiti Jamaica Montserrat Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago 5 Associate members title=5 Associate members Anguilla Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Turks and Caicos Islands
Demonym	Caribbean, West Indian
Government
Government	Trade bloc
Secretary General	Lolita Applewhaite (Acting Secretary-General)
Chairman	Tillman Thomas
Formation	Formation
Treaty of Chaguaramas	July 4, 1973
Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas	2001
Geography
Total Area	177.020 sq mi (458.5 km2)
Demography
Population Est.	15948000
Density (pop.)	34.7/km² (112th) (90/sq mi)
Economy
GDP PPP	$91,296 billion (2008) (68th)
GDP (PPP) per capita	$5,725
GDP (nominal)	$64,771 billion (2009)
GDP (nominal) per capita	$8,116
Other information
Currency	12 title=12 Bahamian dollar Barbadian dollar Belize dollar East Caribbean dollar Guyanese dollar Haitian gourde Jamaican dollar Surinamese dollar United States dollar Trinidad and Tobago dollar
Website	http://www.caricom.org/index.jsp

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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies. CARICOM's main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. Its major activities involve coordinating economic policies and development planning; devising and instituting special projects for the less-developed countries within its jurisdiction; operating as a regional single market for many of its members (Caricom Single Market); and handling regional trade disputes. The secretariat headquarters is based in Georgetown, Guyana.

Since the establishment of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by the mainly English- (and English Creole-) speaking parts of the Caribbean region CARICOM has become multilingual in practice with the addition of Dutch speaking-Suriname on 4 July 1995 and Haiti, where French and Haitian Creole are spoken, on 2 July 2002.

In 2001, the heads of government signed a Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas thus clearing the way for the transformation of the idea for a Common Market aspect of CARICOM into instead a Caribbean (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy. Part of the revised treaty among member states includes the establishment and implementation of the Caribbean Court of Justice.

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