Flag of CARICOM
Officially Caribbean Community
What the flag looks like
Two horizontal bands, light blue over a narrower dark blue, with a yellow disc ringed in green in the center bearing two black interlocking letters C.
What it means
Light blue stands for the sky and dark blue for the Caribbean Sea; the yellow disc is the sun, the green ring the vegetation, and the linked Cs the Caribbean Community.
How to remember it
CARICOM
is sky over sea in two blues, with a yellow sun showing two linked black Cs, for Caribbean Community.
Fun facts
- CARICOM was founded by the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973, signed by Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.
- Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory, is the only full member that is not a sovereign state.
CARICOM at a glance
- Founded
- 1973
- Members
- 15 full members
- Headquarters
- Georgetown
- Headquarters
- Georgetown
- Region
- Founded 1973
- Languages
- English
- Flag adopted
- 1983