ABSTRACT
Unavoidable publishing delays make it impossible to bring the story of British Honduras quite up to date, but a word may here be added about the economic and political situation in the Colony at the turn of the half century, that is to say at the end of 1950. For generations, the currency of the Colony had been reckoned in dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, bits, cents, etc. after the American fashion, and the value of the Honduranian dollar had been ‘tied’ to that of the American in relation to British money. Federation of the B.W.I. has been ‘in the air’ for a great many years—ever since the successful federation of the colonies of British North America in 1867, in fact. There are still seven distinct governments—British Honduras, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Barbados, Trinidad, and British Guiana with their dependencies—but there were originally many more.
