On Tuesday October 14, the Lower House passed the Caribbean Community (Free Movement of Nationals) Bill, 2025. Unless the Act is rejected by the Upper House, Barbadians will face much stiffer competition for local jobs because at section 5 shown below, the Act gives “freely moving” CARICOM citizens the right to work here WITHOUT A WORK PERMIT.
The bill is now in the Upper House or Senate where the government has majority of senators- 12 out of 21. Unless the two opposition senators, seven independent senators and at least two government senators vote against the bill, it will become law.
Reciprocity?
The interesting question is whether the countries participating in this “free movement” of persons arrangement have reciprocated by passing equivalent legislation in their countries.
St. Vincent
In the case of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the answer is “yes”. According to the St. Vincent online publication, the Searchlight, on September 28, the government there passed legislation that gives nationals of Barbados, Belize and Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
the right to enter, leave, and re-enter, move freely, reside, work and remain indefinitely in the mentioned countries without the need for a work or residency permit.
Dominica
In the case of Dominica, to date we have not seen any such legislation. What is interesting though, is that some Dominicans have expressed delight in the free movement protocol. One commenter on dominicanewsonline.com had this to say:
Belize
We can find no record or mention of the accompanying legislation in Belize so far although a local publication did not miss the opportunity to show off the first Barbadians to be granted entry to the country under the free movement protocol.
But this is how some Belizeans understand this new level of “free movement” according to an online Belizean publication:
Before October 2025, you needed either a work permit or a CARICOM Skills Certificate to find employment in another member state. Now, those barriers are gone between Belize, Barbados, Dominica, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
The publication goes on to say the following:
Incidentally
One thing we have found of interest is that the Belize government recently welcomed an ambassador from Palestine. According to the online publication, greaterbelize.com:
On Friday, September 12, Belize voted in favour of the United Nations declaration that sets out concrete, time-bound, and irreversible steps toward establishing an independent State of Palestine.
This comes in the wake of the Belizean government’s revocation of the Israeli ambassador’s accreditation in November 2023.
It is truly amazing how a country can welcome an ambassador from a non-existent country and reject one from an established UN state. We will see how that works out.
‘Tunnel’ Effect?
But does this mean that Barbados and other Caribbean islands have now bolted themselves to a tunnel that potentially can see the flow of Palestinian terrorists and terrorist money laundering through Belize? Only time will tell.
We end this article with a repeat of a call for the monthly publication of statistics in Barbados to track the next movement of people under this protocol as was described in another article accessible by clicking here or the image below.
Conclusion
Barbados Uncensored will continue to investigate this matter because although it has been candy-wrapped in the narrative of regionalism and so defended by regionalists such as David Commissiong and Julian Rogers, this move can also be seen as a stage in the greater globalism project led by the Caribbean’s arch globalist.
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