Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines will have full Free Movement of their citizens on 1 October 2025

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Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines move towards full Free Movement on 1 October 2025​

September 15, 2025

Four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States—Barbados, Belize, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines—are on track to implement full Free Movement among themselves from 1 October this year. By implementing the full free movement regime, these four countries have agreed to grant their nationals the right to enter, leave and re-enter, move freely, reside, work and remain indefinitely in the receiving Member State, without the need for a work or residency permit.

Their nationals will also be able to access emergency and primary health care, and public primary and secondary education, within the means of the receiving Member State.
This is in keeping with a CARICOM Heads decision taken at the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government this year.
Representatives from these four Member States have been meeting and working to ensure the required measures to support the full free movement of their nationals will be undertaken and commence on 1 October 2025.

This free movement arrangement falls within the new Enhanced Cooperation Chapter of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. Under that Chapter, the Conference of CARICOM Heads can allow groups of at least three Member States to seek to advance integration among themselves where the Conference agrees that the targeted objectives cannot be attained within a reasonable period by the Community as a whole.
This type of free movement expands what is offered under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). It is available to all CARICOM nationals of the participating four countries.
The other Member States participating in the CSME will continue to operate free movement under the existing Regimes (Skills, Services, Business Establishment and general facilitation of travel).

 

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Barbados media coverage

 

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Belize

 

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Dominica

 

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St Vincent and Grenadines

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Nice

 

[010101]

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[Tupac in a Business Suit]

Dominica

Yo I just discovered Dominica Soca music the other day. Those songs are hilarious.

 

[Wiseborn]

This is a good first step. There needs to be one super country

 

[King Sun]

 

[BigMan]

This is a good first step. There needs to be one super country

baby steps breh

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

The knitting together of the Afro-Atlantic world

 

[Wiseborn]

baby steps breh

Of course, And Barbados is the big dog financially but still look at Dominica damn near wiped out during the last big hurricane all those small islands have to donate food when they get hit by a hurricane so why not come together eventually?

Jamaica because of Population will be the manufacturing center and even Haiti will provide a lot of labor.

 

[BigMan]

Of course, And Barbados is the big dog financially but still look at Dominica damn near wiped out during the last big hurricane all those small islands have to donate food when they get hit by a hurricane so why not come together eventually?

Jamaica because of Population will be the manufacturing center and even Haiti will provide a lot of labor.

RSS and OECS does a lot with climate/natural disaster relief. Dominica and St. Vincent are members. they are more integrated than the rest of the Caribbean.

there's a lot of politics, historic, cultural, and logistical reasons on why more integration is very far away in the Caribbean.

Absolutely no one in the Caribbean wants Haitians to have free movement to their countries. or Cuban/Dominican migration either.

I support regional integration but there's many practical hurdles that people outside the region generally aren't aware of.

 

[Pistolvania Prince]

RSS and OECS does a lot with climate/natural disaster relief. Dominica and St. Vincent are members. they are more integrated than the rest of the Caribbean.

there's a lot of politics, historic, cultural, and logistical reasons on why more integration is very far away in the Caribbean.

Absolutely no one in the Caribbean wants Haitians to have free movement to their countries. or Cuban/Dominican migration either.

I support regional integration but there's many practical hurdles that people outside the region generally aren't aware of.

Speaking as a Jamaican, idk if they’d want us coming in large numbers either. But based off location & infrastructure the Chinese built near Kingston harbour it def would be a big step for the region