LYRICS:<br>From many distant lands, our fore fathers came<br>Some seeking adventure, some bound in chains<br>Through battles waged and fought<br>Through victory and pain<br>By test of their courage<br>Our freedom was gained<br>In homage to those gone before us<br>The heroes of lands in the sun<br>We vow to join hands and to focus<br>On building one Caribbean<br><br>Chorus:<br>Raise your voices high<br>Sing of your Caribbean pride<br>Sing it loud and strong<br>Feel our hearts beat as one<br>Celebrate in song<br>As we rise to heights where we belong<br>Sound the victory drum<br>For CARICOM<br><br>Though great and diverse be our ethnicities<br>The bonds that unite us are stronger than these<br>We dine we pray we love, we dance and we play<br>We relate to each other the West Indian way<br>Today as people united<br>Determined and steadfast we stand<br>We look to a brand new horizon<br>The future now firmly in our hands<br><br>Chorus:<br><br>The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organization of fifteen Caribbean nations and dependencies whose main objective is to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. The organization was established in 1973. Currently CARICOM has 15 full members:<br><br>Antigua & Barbuda<br>Belize<br>Dominica<br>Grenada<br>Haiti<br>Montserrat<br>St. Kitts & Nevis<br>St. Lucia<br>St. Vincent & the Grenadines<br>Bahamas<br>Barbados<br>Guyana<br>Jamaica<br>Suriname<br>Trinidad & Tobago
