CARICOM Member States
Membership of the Caribbean Community, as distinct from any of the regimes built on top of it. The skills certificate, full free movement and the OECS Protocol each reach a different and smaller set, and each has its own group here; this one is the bare fact of being a member, which is what a domestic instrument means when it writes "CARICOM countries" and leaves the term undefined - as the Saint Lucian Hospitals Regulations do when they exempt Community nationals from the non-national hospital charge.
No single instrument we have read states the membership. The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, in the text the Community's own Secretariat publishes, lists fourteen members at article 3(1) and Haiti is not among them: article 3(2) opens membership to any other Caribbean State the Conference admits, which is what Haiti's membership rests on, and the printed list was never brought up to date. The Immigration and Passport Act of Antigua and Barbuda lists thirteen in Schedule 1 Part A and does include Haiti, but omits The Bahamas and Montserrat, which are members of the Community and not of its single market.
The fifteen below are the union of those two lists, so every member here is named in an instrument rather than by us. Read the gap in each list as a fact about that instrument: a treaty text that stopped being revised, and a statute that lists the states its own free movement provisions reach.
Where it actually bites
Membership is one thing and what a destination does with it is another. These are the countries covered here that treat these nationalities differently, and on which question.
Belize- Access to healthcare · Emergency and Primary Care at a Public Facility, by Statute
Dominica- Access to healthcare · Contributions Made Elsewhere in the Region Count Here
Saint Lucia- Access to healthcare · CARICOM Nationals Are Charged What a Saint Lucian Is Charged
Trinidad And Tobago- Residency as a student · Half the Immigration Fees, Written into the 2025 Regulations
- issuesRevised Treaty of Chaguaramas Establishing the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy
Caribbean Community Secretariat
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Depositary and publisher of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and the single market material built on it.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for what a member state's law actually is. The treaty binds states rather than conferring rights a reader can exercise at a counter, and its establishment articles have no implementing provision in at least one member we have read. Our capture of the treaty also has irregular article headings, so no negative claim about its contents may rest on it.
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- consolidatesImmigration and Passport Act, 2014, No. 6 of 2014, as published in the Official Gazette Vol. XXXIV No. 41 of 19 June 2014
Laws of Antigua and Barbuda
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The government's law site, carrying two distinct collections: chapters of a Revised Edition whose base cut-off is 1992, and Acts, Bills and Statutory Instruments as printed year by year. The Revised Edition chapters are scanned page-images with a recognition layer; the annual Acts from about 2014 are born-digital.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The Revised Edition does not show repeal. It still publishes the Immigration and Passport Act as a chapter although the 2014 Act repealed it outright, with nothing on the page to say so, and that chapter is what a search engine surfaces first. It carries no later amendments either, and there is no consolidated text of any post-1992 Act, so a rule must always be cited as the section of the resulting Act naming the instrument that put it there. Its instrument collection is incomplete: the instrument that inserted one regulation of the investment rules is in neither collection. And its scans are lossy - a schedule paragraph disappears from extraction entirely and one Act loses its right margin - so a quotation from a chapter must be declared as a recognition and a negative claim must never rest on one alone.
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