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The West Indies Federation, [2] [3] also known as the West Indies, [4] [5] the Federation of the West Indies [6] or the West Indian Federation, [7] [8] [9] was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962.
Lord Moyne even agreed, at the urging of the War Office, to "moderate the tone" and to cut the "particularly dangerous sections", regarding the state of housing, women and children, from the final report. [34] Johnson claims that the government had already decided that it was going to spend money to improve the West Indies. [26]
Jamaica also entered the West Indies Federation, a political union of 10 colonial Caribbean islands that were combined to become a single, independent state. Jamaica's role in the WIF was unpopular, which resulted in the popular opinion in the 1961 West Indies referendum of 1961 to rule that the colony will withdraw from the union the following ...
After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.
The Jamaica Independence Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that granted independence to Jamaica with effect from 6 August 1962. As a result of the Act, Jamaica became the first English-speaking country in the West Indies to achieve full independence from the United Kingdom.
The federation was formed on 3 January 1958, and was formally dissolved on 31 May 1962. The governor-general was constitutionally required to take advice from the prime minister of the West Indies Federation , but was by far the more powerful and prestigious of the two positions, containing almost all executive authority within the government ...
The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62.. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation, which consisted of all the island nations (except the Bahamas), and the territories (excluding Bermuda ...
In 1958, the Windward Islands Administration was dissolved, and Grenada joined the Federation of the West Indies. In 1960, another constitutional evolution established the post of Chief Minister, making the leader of the majority party in the Legislative Council, which at that time was Herbert Blaize, effective head of government.