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CARIFTA Swimming Championships
The CARIFTA Aquatics Championships is an annual, age-group aquatics championships for the Caribbean. It has been held since 1985, and is similar in form/origin to the track & field/athletics event: the CARIFTA Games. The event is held under the auspices of CANOC, the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees. The 30th edition of the aquatics championships was held in April 2015 in Bridgetown, Barbados. Musician Sean Paul participated in the 1989 and 1991 editions of the championships, as part of the Jamaican water polo team. Editions CARIFTA Swimming Championships records All records were set in finals unless noted otherwise. All times are swum in a long-course (50m) pool. Boys (11–12) Girls (11–12) Mixed relay (13–14) Boys (13–14) Girls (13–14) Boys (15–17) Girls (15–17) See also *Caribbean Free Trade A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CARIFTA
The Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) was organised on 1 May 1968, to provide a continued economic linkage between the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean. The agreements establishing it came following the dissolution of the West Indies Federation which lasted from 1958 to 1962. History The origins of CARIFTA lay in a meeting on July 4, 1965, between the Prime Ministers of Barbados and British Guiana (Errol Barrow and Forbes Burnham respectively) to discuss the possibility of establishing a free trade area between the two territories, which at the time were moving towards independence from the United Kingdom. The discussions revolved around establish a free trade area between only those two countries initially and then extending it to the rest of the Caribbean when the other countries in the Commonwealth Caribbean were ready to join. These bilateral discussions between Barrow and Burnham were later expanded to include Vere Cornwall Bird, V. C. Bird of Antigua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |