Caribbean countries

Guyana

Guyana

Guyana is a former British colony on the South American mainland. The area was first colonised by the Dutch. Britain assumed control following the French invasion of the Dutch Republic in 1795. The London Convention of 1814 ceded part of the Dutch possessions to...
Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is the largest and most populous Commonwealth Caribbean country. Initially colonised by the Spanish, it was seized by the British in 1655. Under British rule, Jamaica became a major producer of sugar using enslaved people from West Africa to provide labour on...
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis is a federation of two islands: St Kitts and Nevis, it is the smallest nation in the Western Hemisphere and the world’s smallest federal state. Both British and French settlers arrived on the islands in the 1620s. The French finally renounced...
Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is a volcanic island forming part of the Windward Islands, the territory was settled by the French in the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth century, Britain and France struggled for control of the island before the latter finally prevailed in 1814 at...
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a country consisting of the volcanic island of St Vincent and the 32 smaller islands that constitute the Grenadines. After initial unsuccessful attempts by the British and Dutch to claim the territory it was first colonised by the...