The Caribbean Community is an intergovernmental organisation that is a political and economic union of 15 member states and five associated members throughout the Americas,The Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean. It has the primary objective to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members,ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared,and coordinate foreign policy. The organisation was established in 1973,by its four founding members signing the Treaty of Chaguaramas. Its primary activities involve:
Percival Noel James Patterson,,popularly known as P.J. Patterson,is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years,making him the longest-serving prime minister in Jamaica's history. He was the leader of the People's National Party from 1992 to 2006.
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are a scheme to create a free trade area (FTA) between the European Union and other countries. They are a response to continuing criticism that the non-reciprocal and discriminating preferential trade agreements offered by the EU are incompatible with WTO rules. The EPAs date back to the signing of the Cotonou Agreement. The EPAs with the different regions are at different states of play. The EU has signed EPAs with the following countries:the Southern African Development Community (SADC),ECOWAS,six countries in Eastern and Southern Africa,Cameroon,four Pacific states,and the CARIFORUM states. Their defining characteristic is that they open up exports to the EU immediately,while exports to the partner regions is opened up only partially and over transitioning periods.
Delano Franklyn was a Jamaican attorney-at-Law,a Justice of the Peace and a Notary Public and one of the founding partners of the law firm Wilson &Franklyn.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the Netherlands' ministry responsible for foreign relations,foreign policy,international development,international trade,diaspora and matters dealing with the European Union,NATO and the Benelux Union. The ministry was created in 1798,as the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Batavian Republic. In 1876,it became the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Cabinet of Dominica is appointed by the President of Dominica acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister of Dominica.
This article deals with the diplomatic affairs,foreign policy and international relations of Barbados.
The nations of Jamaica and Mexico established diplomatic relations in 1966. Both nations are members of the Association of Caribbean States,Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,Organization of American States and the United Nations.
Anthony Johnson was a Jamaican politician,diplomat,economist and university lecturer. He was a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) senator and JLP Member of Parliament,ambassador to the United States,and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
The Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) is a subgroup of the Organisation of African,Caribbean and Pacific States and serves as a base for economic dialogue with the European Union. It was established in 1992. Its membership comprises the 15 Caribbean Community states,along with the Dominican Republic. In 2008,they signed the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. Guyana and Haiti expressed reservations and did not attend the signing ceremony.
A member state of the Caribbean Community is a state that has been specified as a member state within the Treaty of Chaguaramas or any other Caribbean state that is in the opinion of the Conference,able and willing to exercise the rights and assume the obligations of membership in accordance with article 29 of the Treaty of Chaguaramas. Member states are designated as either More economically developed country (MDCs) or Less economically developed countries (LDCs). These designations are not intended to create disparity among member states. The Community was established by mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries,but has since become a multilingual organisation in practice with the addition of Dutch-speaking Suriname in 1995 and French-speaking Haiti in 2002. There are fifteen full members of the Caribbean Community,four of which are founding members.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is the ministry responsible for handling Jamaica's external relations and foreign trade. The ministry's current director is Senator Kamina Johnson-Smith.
Marit Elisabeth Maij is a Dutch politician,management consultant,diplomat,and civil servant. She was a member of the House of Representatives for the Labour Party between 20 September 2012 and 23 March 2017. She was elected to the European Parliament in June 2024.
Richard L. Bernal,OJ was a Jamaican economist and diplomat. Bernal served as the Jamaican Ambassador to the United States from 1991 to 2001,simultaneously holding the post of Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the Organization of American States. As of March 2016,Bernal held the post of Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Bernal was a Member of the Order of Jamaica. In 2018,he was made a Professor of Practice (PoP) in international economic policy at The UWI. Bernal was a Member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He was also a member of the Board of Directors at Laspau,Harvard University.
Małgorzata Wasilewska is a Polish diplomat,human rights activist,and European Union ambassador to Jamaica (2016–2020),Barbados and the Caribbean Community.
Jamaica is the first English-speaking country in the Caribbean to achieve universal adult suffrage and grant women the right to be elected to Parliament. Between 1944 and 2020,a total of 47 women have been elected as members of the House of Representatives. As of September 2020 there are 18 women in the House of Representatives,the highest ever. This is a new all-time high at 29% and is the first time that female representation in the House of Representatives stands at more than a quarter of the total membership.
Jamaican–Kosovar relations are foreign relations between Jamaica and Kosovo. Formal diplomatic relations between two states are non-existent as Jamaica does not recognize Kosovo as a sovereign state.
Barbados-Cuban relations refers to the bilateral relations between Barbados and the Republic of Cuba. Barbados has an embassy in Havana and Cuba has an embassy in Bridgetown. Barbados and the Republic of Cuba are both members of the Association of Caribbean States,Belt and Road Initiative,ECLAC,EU-CARIFORUM,the Organisation of African,Caribbean and Pacific State and CARICOM.
Wayne McCook is a Jamaican lawyer and career diplomat who was Jamaican first resident ambassador to China and served as Jamaica's permanent representative to the United Nations offices in Geneva,Switzerland and Rome,Italy. After four decades of diplomatic career,McCook retired from public service to a private career where he served as senior adviser to the Director General of World Trade Organization (WTO). He is married to Jennifer Liu,and has two children,Alexa and Adam McCook
