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CARI-GO to one of these CARICOM Countries
Twelve CARICOM countries with Free Movement*, twelve different answers. Pick one below for the cost of living, places to see, things to do, where to eat, and national symbols.
Antigua and Barbuda
365 beaches, a working Georgian dockyard, and the Caribbean's biggest frigate bird colony.
View at a glance →Barbados
The Caribbean's culinary capital: a former British colony turned republic, built around rum, reefs and Bajan cuisine.
View at a glance →Belize
The only English-speaking CARICOM country in Central America: the world's second-largest barrier reef alongside Maya ruins and rainforest.
View at a glance →Dominica
The "Nature Isle of the Caribbean": a mountainous, volcanic island built for hikers and divers, not beach loungers.
View at a glance →Grenada
The "Spice Isle": a tri-island state built on nutmeg, and home to the world's first underwater sculpture park.
View at a glance →Guyana
Mainland South America's only English-speaking country: a vast, largely untouched interior of rainforest, savannah and waterfalls, transformed by a recent oil boom.
View at a glance →Jamaica
The Caribbean's best-known island by far: reggae, jerk, and a coastline that runs from Blue Mountain coffee slopes to Seven Mile Beach.
View at a glance →Saint Lucia
Home of the Pitons, a UNESCO World Heritage volcanic landmark, and a drive-in volcano you can walk right up to.
View at a glance →St. Kitts and Nevis
The smallest sovereign state in the Americas: two volcanic islands, a UNESCO fortress, and a carnival held at Christmas instead of summer.
View at a glance →St. Vincent and the Grenadines
One volcanic mainland and 32 smaller islands and cays strung south to the Tobago Cays: one of the Caribbean's classic sailing grounds.
View at a glance →Suriname
The only Dutch-speaking country in the Americas: a Dutch colonial capital fronting a vast, largely untouched Amazon interior.
View at a glance →Trinidad and Tobago
The most populous, most industrialised CARICOM state, and home of the world's biggest Carnival, calypso, soca and steelpan.
View at a glance →* Free movement is the right CARICOM nationals have to live and work in another member state without a work permit, established under the CSME (CARICOM Single Market and Economy) by the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. These 12 states currently participate: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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