ABSTRACT
Decolonization reached the Caribbean in the 1960s. Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago secured their independence first, in 1962. Barbados and Guyana won theirs in 1966. The other countries became independent in the 1970s and 1980s as folllows: the Bahamas, 1973; Grenada, 1974; Dominica, 1978; St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1979; Antigua-Barbuda, and Belize, 1981; St. Kitts-Nevis, 1983.
