Caribbean Commission

The '''Caribbean Commission''', originally the '''Anglo-American Caribbean Commission''', was established on 9 March 1942 to improve the common social and economic problems of the region and deal with wartime issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RrUKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aU0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5511,7996189&dq=anglo-american-caribbean-commission|work=St. Petersburg Times|title=Anglo-American Committee For Caribbean Appointed|date=1942-03-10|accessdate=2009-09-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bough |first=James A. |date=1949 |title=The Caribbean Commission |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/caribbean-commission/447EABE158354310843B812C1752BA2F |journal=International Organization |language=en |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=643–655 |doi=10.1017/S0020818300014922 |issn=1531-5088|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 1946, the governments of the United States and United Kingdom invited France and the Netherlands to join, creating the Caribbean Commission with a central secretariat in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.<ref>Herbert Corkran, Patterns of International Cooperation in the Caribbean, 1942-1969 (Dallas, 1979)</ref>

The so-called 'West-Indian Conferences' were held in 1944 (Barbados), 1946 (St. Thomas), 1948 (Guadeloupe), 1950 (Curaçao), 1952 (Jamaica), 1955 Porto Rico, 1957 (Curacao), 1959 (St. Thomas).

== See also == * Moyne Commission

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Category:International organizations based in the Americas Category:History of the Caribbean Category:British West Indies