CARICOM: Caribbean Community
The Caribbean Community and Common Market founded August 1st 1973 and its goal is to promote regional integration of the Caribbean Islands, such as the Bahamas and Haiti, and the main land countries. The Bahamas has been a member of the Caribbean Community since July 4th 1983 and Haiti is last country that joined CARICOM as a member in July 3rd 2002. This union, which is between fifteen countries in the Caribbean, aims to prosper the economic and political status of the countries and strengthen the foreign affairs among the neighboring countries.