Tag Archives: West Indies Federation

Treaty of Chaguaramas: The foundation of Caribbean integration and its lasting impact

How the Treaty of Chaguaramas reshaped Caribbean trade and politics.

The Treaty of Chaguaramas established CARICOM and remains the central framework for Caribbean economic integration, regional diplomacy, and collective development. Signed in Trinidad and Tobago on July 4, 1973, the treaty emerged from the collapse of the West Indies Federation and the urgent need for newly independent Caribbean states to …

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CLR James: The revolutionary Trinidadian thinker who changed history, politics and culture

The extraordinary life of CLR James and his global political legacy.

CLR James remains one of the most influential Caribbean intellectuals of the 20th century, shaping global debates on revolution, colonialism, race, sport, democracy and human freedom. Born in colonial Trinidad in 1901, Cyril Lionel Robert James evolved from a gifted schoolboy and cricket writer into an internationally respected historian, Marxist …

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