New Rules for Yachts in CARICOMI'm planning to check out their web site and see if it is currently in effect. What happens if you decide to bypass your destination and go somewhere else because of timing, or weather conditions, etc? Will the country that you bypassed get worried when you don't show up? Plus, you won't have a form filled out prior to your arrival for the country you are entering...
Yachts traveling from country to country within much of the English-speaking Eastern Caribbean are looking at more paperwork.
Legislation has been passed which requires all air and sea carriers to submit passenger information in advance when arriving at, and departing from, each of ten Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM) member states. Participating CARICOM member states are:These countries are collectively known as a "Single Domestic Space" (SDS).
- Jamaica,
- Antigua & Barbuda,
- St. Kitts & Nevis,
- Dominica,
- Barbados,
- St. Lucia,
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines,
- Grenada,
- Trinidad & Tobago, and
- Guyana.
Compass is informed that the term "sea carriers" includes both private and charter yachts.
To comply with the new regulation, you fill out a form (available by registering at www.caricomeapis.org) which asks for information such as passengers' names, nationalities and passport numbers, and the vessel's dates and times of departure and arrival.
There are three ways the form can be submitted:When arriving in the SDS from a port outside of the SDS, the form must be submitted no later than 24 hours before arrival.
- By sending as an e-mail attachment to maritime@impacsjrcc.org
- By filling it in on-line
- By faxing it to (246) 228-4040.
When departing from the SDS to a port outside of the SDS, the form must be submitted no later than 15 minutes after departure.
When traveling between countries within the SDS, the form must be submitted no later than one hour before departure.
For more information contact Diane Hazzard at (246) 429-7931 or diane.hazzard@impacsjrcc.org
Wasn't it last year that they were saying how they had just cut down on forms and things were easier?
Maybe we'll just stick to Anguilla, St. Maarten, and the French Islands :)
Too much Big Brother in my opinion. So It Goes... perhaps it is time to move on.
