ABSTRACT
For a description with less emotive connotations, the Commonwealth Caribbean is that part of the globe known as the West Indies.1 It comprises both dependent and independent democratic States, but the former are now few in number.2 The independent countries of the region belong to a socio-economic grouping – a loose political community labelled the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).3 There is a further subgrouping of the countries of the Eastern Caribbean, known as the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
