Functional Cooperation has been recognized as vital to the Caribbean Regional Integration Movement. The adoption of a joint approach to deal with common problems is arguably the only way CARICOM countries will survive in the new international dispensation of globalization. In this multi-disciplinary collection, the contributors look at functional cooperation as the mechanism to safeguard CARICOM's future. From Health to Telecommunications; Tourism to Education; the CCJ; private sector growth and public governance; a comprehensive overview of Functional Cooperation as a catalyst for change and growth is presented in The Caribbean Community in Transition.