9.4 Caribbean System

The honest map: the Caribbean has no dedicated regional human-rights court or charter — the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) built economic integration (the Caribbean Single Market) with human rights left to two other layers: (i) the Inter-American system's partial reach (some Caribbean states party to the American Convention and Court — though several English-speaking states never joined, remaining only under the Commission's OAS-Charter jurisdiction); (ii) the domestic constitutional systems (the common-law bills of rights + the Privy Council's appeals (the death-penalty jurisprudence) — and the Caribbean Court of Justice's emerging rights role); (iii) the regional instruments' faces (the CARICOM Charter for Civil Society — the soft-law declaration). The exam's line: the Caribbean's protection is borrowed and domestic — the Inter-American partial reach + the strong courts — not a standing Caribbean system.