[1] On Friday, 7 January 2005, the Republic of Suriname became the first full member state to officially launch the new bloc "CARICOM Passport".The full member states of the Caribbean Community had agreed to establish a common passport in order to make intra-regional and international travel easier for their citizens.[7] Guyana had also announced that it would begin to use the new CARICOM passport format by the middle of 2005, but the introduction was delayed and the new target date was set to July 2006.These states are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.The passports for Suriname were created by the Canadian Banknote Company Ltd (CBN) under a five-year programme with a price tag of US$1.5 million.