The CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) is the regional centre for promoting efficiency and competitive production in goods and services, through the process of standardization and the verification of quality. CROSQ thereby aims to harmonise and circulate regional stan...

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) is a regional inter-governmental agency for disaster management that falls directly under the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). CDEMA's main function is to make an immediate and coordinated response to any disastrous event affecting any member-...

The Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) contributes to enhanced agricultural health and food safety in the Caribbean Community. Its primary objectives include regional and national support in establishing, managing and operating national agricultural h...

CASSOS was formally launched in February 2009 at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana. CASSOS succeeds RASOS, with functions that been redefined and are broader in scope to include all the annexes to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago, 1944), commonly called ICA...

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is the new single regional public health agency for the Caribbean. The Agency rationalises public health arrangements in the Region by combining the functions of five Caribbean Regional Health Institutes (RHIs) into a single agency. They institutions ar...

The Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) transforms and modernizes public sectors of Member States to better formulate and implement public policy towards the achievement of sound Governance. CARICAD’s core business is public sector transformation through: Delibera...

Established in 1975, CARDI’s aim is to contribute to agricultural development by conducting research and by exposing farmers and other persons involved in agriculture to appropriate technologies. In the broad objectives set out in the articles of agreement establishing CARDI, the Institute wa...

COTA was established in 1971 at a meeting of the Heads of Regional Tax Administration convened in Saint Lucia when its Constitution was ratified. The Constitution was subsequently approved in October 1972 by the Standing Committee of Ministers of Finance in Trinidad & Tobago. The year 2002 there...

The Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN) is an inter-governmental agency of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM. CKLN was mandated by the Heads of Government of CARICOM with the responsibility to build a broadband fibre optic network called C@ribNET, connecting all CARICOM member states, wit...