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Notes
1. Production integration, as an approach to economic integration in CARICOM, was first proposed by Brewster and Thomas (Citation1967) as a complementary approach based on the ‘integration of trade and production’ rather than a pure market-driven approach. (Girvan, Citation2001). Production integration focuses on goods and to a lesser extent services through ‘industrial programming and an active role of the state; with much of the new activity being oriented to the regional market’ (Girvan, Citation2001, p. 8) emerged as the bedrock of the Original Treaty of Chaguaramas (CARICOM, Citation1973). However, the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (CARICOM, Citation2001) recirculates the concept of production integration within context of open regionalism so that CSME is focused on ‘ … increased production integration of goods, services and capital with the world economy’ (Girvan, Citation2001, p. 10). In fact, the Revised Treaty calls for the ‘structured integration of production in the Region’ to facilitate the ‘unrestricted movement of capital, labour and technology’ (CARICOM, Citation2001, para 7).
2. Rulings by the Caribbean Court of Justice have the potential to change the intergovernmental nature of CARICOM given its jurisdiction and its ability to create community laws see the case of Myrie v. The State of Barbados of 2013 where the Caribbean Court of Justice upheld the right of unfettered mobility across the region. The movement away from intergovernmentalism was recommend by the West Indian Commission (Ramphal, Citation1993) and reaffirmed in the Rose Hall Declaration.