What is Caricom? Caricom is a grouping of twenty countries: fifteen Member States and five Associate Members. It is home to approximately sixteen million citizens, 60% of whom are under the age of 30, and from the main ethnic groups of Indigenous Peoples, Africans, Indians, Europeans, Chinese, Portuguese and Javanese. In Guyana, it is an off-work day and is celebrated on the first Monday in July. Guyana became one of the founding members of CARICOM when it signed the Treaty of Chaguaramas on Jul