Dominion of Bermuda and The Caribbean

Flag of the Dominion of the Caribbean

**Bahamas** Officially the **Dominion of Bermuda and The Caribbean** is the remnant of the West Indies Federation formed out of its initial collapse. The dominion is a Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy with its own parliament, but still having its executive appointed by the King due to recent instability, it is indirectly ruled by the House of Windsor. The Bahamas formed after the Collapse of the West Indies Federation as where a provisional government was located after Jamaica fell to the Jamaican Commune. Thus it formed on the same day that Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago formed on, March 5th of 1946. The Dominion of the Caribbean would end up helping quite Substantially during the Homecoming being where many of the marines came from due to their experience in the waters of the Caribbean. Because the Dominion is part of the British Empire it is a member state of the Entente.

## History

The Lesser Antilles of the West Indies Federation were generally the poorer regions of the Federation and thus were were most of the energy of the W.I.F government was given towards. This would be very beneficial to the outer Islands especially as the Black Monday Crisis took a bite out of the Tourism and export based economies of these nations. The Government would get to work while allowing Jamaica to administer itself and new offices were set up across these outer islands. Soon the main issues of each island were identified in the Moyne Commission witch identified several such issues, but also determined that the Outer Islands were in a better situation to fix it than others. Thus the Government would start here, breaking apart fruit monopolies on islands, cracking down on Prostitution, subsidizing companies to avoid the "Slavery in a Different Form". and also generally improving the infrastructure of the Islands. The government would continue this process for a while until trade completely ground to a halt with the advent of the Second Weltkrieg witch allowed the French to use their submarines to halt Transatlantic trade. However the Government would take subsides from Ottawa and would use the money from them to finish up the process by the end of 1943. During that time the Entente had entered into the Second Weltkrieg and the W.I.F would use its troops to help in the amphibious landings allowing a large swath of enemy territory to be sized in Southern France. However in 1944 a mistake had come to light with Jamaica having barely improved, the government would remove the Jamaican administration and would begin trying to improve conditions there. However this would fail quite miserably and they were unable to do much given the severity of the situation of the Islands. This all meant that in 1946 after a flood of Syndicalist agitators Jamaica would break out into all out revolution and the Tobago commune would also break out, cutting communications with Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. This would end up causing these regions to flake off and with the government having fallen the local administration in the Bahamas took it upon itself to organize the rest of the Caribbean. With permission from the Ottawa government they would reform the Federation into the "Dominion of Bermuda and The Caribbean". In the inital days of the New Dominion a government was quickly set up an a ministry of war was established. The first thing the Ministry of War did was to blockade Jamaica and to support the republican faction within the commune's government. Eventually this would occur but several plebiscites were held in the newly fractured away territory and to the Dominion's surprise they didn't vote to rejoin, but rather to stay independent. Recent Years have been rough for the world as a whole and the Collapse of the W.I.F is one of the best examples. However the Dominion's future looks to be bright at a new world order descends across the Earth, the Kalterkrieg

## Military

The Dominion is large enough to have its own large scale military force being stronger than any other Caribbean nation such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, or the Dominican Republic. The army of the Dominion is comprised of several groups of people from several islands, well known for Amphibious operations within the ranks of the Entente. The Dominion also has a large naval force and is working on construction of new Aircraft Carriers as the Battleship became obsolete in the Second Weltkrieg. The Dominion also in conjunction with this has a good sized air force having been built up during the Second Weltkrieg.