Caribbean has part(s) Barbados
Decolonisation and Modern period
Between the 1960s and 80s, most of the British holdings in the Caribbean achieved political independence, starting with Jamaica in 1962, then Trinidad and Tobago (1962), British Guiana (1966), Barbados (1966), Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Dominica (1978), St. Lucia (1979), St. Vincent (1979), Antigua and Barbuda (1981), St. Kitts and Nevis (1983). Presently, the United States, Britain, France and the Netherlands still have some Caribbean possessions.
The decline of the export industries meant a need to diversify the economies of the Caribbean territories. The tourism industry started developing in the early 20th century, rapidly developing in the 1960s when regular international flights made vacations affordable and is now a $50 billion industry. Another industry that developed in the early 20th century was offshore banking and financial services, particularly in The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, as the proximity of the Caribbean islands to North America made them an attractive location for branches of foreign banks seeking to avail themselves of more complicated regulations and higher tax rates.Leeward Islands
 United States Virgin Islands  (U.S.)
Saint Croix
Saint Thomas
Saint John
Water Island
 British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
Tortola
Virgin Gorda
Anegada
Jost Van Dyke
 Anguilla (United Kingdom)
 Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua
Barbuda
Redonda
Saint Martin, politically divided between
 Saint Martin (France)
 Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
 Saba (Caribbean Netherlands, Netherlands)
 Sint Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands, Netherlands)
 Saint Barthélemy (French Antilles, France)
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts
Nevis
 Montserrat (United Kingdom)
 Guadeloupe (French Antilles, France) including
Les Saintes
Marie-Galante
La Désirade
Windward Islands
 Dominica
 Martinique (French Antilles, France)
 Saint Lucia
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent
The Grenadines
 Grenada
Grenada
Carriacou and Petite Martinique
 Barbados
 Trinidad and Tobago
Tobago
Trinidad
Leeward Antilles
 Aruba (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
 Curaçao (Kingdom of the Netherlands)
 Bonaire (Caribbean Netherlands, Netherlands)Cuisine
Favourite or national dishes
Anguilla – rice, peas and fish
Antigua and Barbuda – fungee and pepperpot
Bahamas – Guava duff, Conch Salad, Peas n' Rice, and Conch Fritters
Barbados – cou-cou and flying fish
Belize – rice and beans, stew chicken with potato salad; white rice, stew beans and fry fish with cole slaw
British Virgin Islands – fish and fungee
Cayman Islands – turtle stew, turtle steak, grouper
Colombian Caribbean – rice with coconut milk, arroz con pollo, sancocho, Arab cuisine (due to the large Arab population)
Cuba – platillo Moros y Cristianos, ropa vieja, lechon, maduros, ajiaco
Dominica – mountain chicken, rice and peas, dumplings, saltfish, dashin, bakes (fried dumplings), coconut confiture, curry goat, cassava farine, oxtail
Dominican Republic – arroz con pollo with stewed red kidney beans, pan fried or braised beef, salad/ ensalada de coditos, empanadas, mangú, sancocho
Grenada – oil down, Roti and rice & chicken
Guyana – roti and curry, pepperpot, cookup rice, methem, pholourie
Haiti – griot (fried pork) served with du riz a pois or diri ak pwa (rice and beans)
Jamaica – ackee and saltfish, callaloo, jerk chicken, curry chicken
Montserrat – Goat water
Puerto Rico – yellow rice with green pigeon peas, saltfish stew, roasted pork shoulder, chicken fricassée, mofongo, tripe soup, alcapurria, coconut custard, rice pudding, guava turnovers, Mallorca bread
Saint Kitts and Nevis – goat water, coconut dumplings, spicy plantain, saltfish, breadfruit
Saint Lucia – callaloo, dal roti, dried and salted cod, green bananas, rice and beans
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – roasted breadfruit and fried jackfish
Suriname – brown beans and rice, roti and curry, peanut soup, battered fried plantain with peanut sauce, nasi goreng, moksie alesi, bara, pom
Trinidad and Tobago – doubles, curry with roti or dal bhat, aloo pie, phulourie, callaloo, bake and shark, curry crab and dumpling
United States Virgin Islands – stewed goat, oxtail or beef, seafood, callaloo, fungee
Venezuela Caribbean – fried fish with salad and rise, tostones, sancocho, patacon, pabellon
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