After a decade of patient diplomacy and a legislative marathon through Paris, the French Caribbean territory arrives in Saint Lucia this week as CARICOM’s seventh Associate Member — and the regional map may never look the same.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 5, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown | Caribbean Affairs |When the heads of government of the Caribbean Community file into their Fifty-first Regular Meeting in Saint Lucia this week, there will be a new flag in the room — and it carries the tricolore of the French Republic.
