CARICOM superseded the 1965–1972 Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) organized to provide a continued economic linkage between the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean after the dissolution of the West Indies Federation, which lasted from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.

CARICOM has no permanent central authority to make decisions. It is operated through a number of bodies called organs, institutions and associated institutions. The conference of CARICOM Heads of government is the highest authority, making policies and decisions on all matters and gives instructions to all bodies except the associate institution. The CARICOM council of ministers is the second highest authority. It is made up of ministers responsible for CARICOM affairs and had the responsibility for matters with the Common Market. 

However CARICOM faces challenges towards its success.     

·        Conflict between national and region loyalties.

·        Member countries have tended to pursue different strategies for political and economic development.

·         Members have more resources than others.

·        Poor dissemination of information and slow implementation and ratification. 

She left Nigeria to study in United States at nineteen. Her American roommate pitied her because of her perception that African was not similar to her. If Adichie didn’t grow up in Nigeria she would have thought of Africa as her roommate with beautiful landscapes, incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars and dying from aids and poverty, waiting to be saved by a white foreigner.  The single story of Africa came from literature reinforcing the myth of history,reinforcing white supremacy. John sailed to Africa and he quote “beast with no houses” he referred to the Africans and placed negativity on dark people who he said were half devil/ half child, placing racial stigmas on them.

 Adichie stated it is impossible to talk about the single story, without talk about power or Nkail-to be greater than another. Power is not just the ability to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The single story robes human dignity and gives equality of humanity difficult, emphasizes on how we are different than similar which can still be playing out today. History as we know it was written from a Ethnocentric and androcentric standpoint giving a single story and blinds us from the truth. 

Enslavement ended in 1838 and the church was given the responsibility to educate. Sunday schools were the earliest introduced level of education for Caribbean population intended to provide a morality and education rooted in Christianity. The few educational institutions that existed in the region were run by religious institutions and catered to a minority of privileged whites who were the sons and daughters of the plantocracy and as time progress the privileged mulatto population got an opportunity to gain an education.

Education was a potent force for change and mobility within the colonial society. Before emancipation education did not exist because it would have competed with time spent away from the plantation. West African-descended families sought to move beyond the confines of plantation agriculture and now officially educate themselves. They did this by enrolling their children in the few available church-run schools while the adults enrolled themselves in adult education facilities run by missionaries in the evenings. 

Education was seen more important and necessary for boys than girls. However girls were accommodated in schools. Education was now being extended to the masses, the aim  was to produce a docile persons to conform to the  status quo The schools focused on the basic skills of literacy and civic order. Some variation based on sex was instituted as boys would be exposed also to arithmetic and woodwork while girls were taught needlework. 

All citizens of Trinidad and Tobago pursuing tertiary education in approved local and regional institutions can benefit from the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) program, established in September 2004 and revised in January 2006. Undergraduate students receive free tuition and postgraduate students can access grants to cover up to a maximum of 50% of their tuition fees. There is a three-year commitment to the country at the end of the program.