Politics Key Facts —The move. French Guiana signed on July 7 as the eighth associate member of CARICOM, the Caribbean bloc. —The setting. The signing came at the bloc’s 51st leaders’ summit in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia, running July 5 to 8. —The wait. The territory first applied in 2012, a fourteen-year push revived in […] The post French Guiana Joins the Caribbean Bloc, Pulling France Closer appeared first on The Rio Times.