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Considering that on most Caribbean islands the native populations were pretty much completely eradicated and the non-black populations are in the extreme minority, I think in most of them just saying the nationality is more than enough.
Aruban = black. Jamaican = black. Haitian = black. Etc.
I personally don't understand the need to identify yourself by racial or ethnic groupings. In today's paper there was a column about a play in which a black mathematician is told that he is "forgetting his identity." This pass unremarked in the column but it struck me. Since in so many other areas we are told that our identity comes from within.
But then, being (extremely, if there are non-northern European genes in me they are very, very old) white means that I've been the beneficiary of the unlevel playing field and therefore it is easy to ignore it.
As for the original question, I'd say black (I'm not fond of African-XX because African is used to mean black when that isn't necessarily true) or black Canadian but if you're presenting this in some formal capacity then yeah, match whatever is expected within that organization.
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