ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the experience of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) in monitoring regional integration. Little progress was made in establishing the Common External Tariff; and plans for sectoral cooperation in mining, agriculture, industry and transport, for the harmonisation of fiscal incentives, and for establishing a Caricom Enterprise Regime, were never realized. Recommendations for improved communication with Caricom included better in-office information technology and communication facilities providing for speedier and more frequent real-time interaction among NFPs and between them and Caricom personnel. A major policy implication of this study is that it might be useful for Caricom to consider the explicit incorporation of the monitoring function into the structures and processes of governance under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. De Lombaerde and Van Langenhove propose that the core of monitoring instruments for integration processes should consist of a 'system of indicators of regional integration' (SIRI).
