Ever since Britain began the evacuation of empire, even the tiniest of its island colonies in the West Indian crescent ... and the group of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. In May, St. Vincent will ...

The British West Indies is the largest group of colonial possessions in the New World, and in 1958 will become an independent nation with dominion status. Composed of seventeen major islands and ...

The lush British colony, only three hours by air ... is now headed by Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley, 62, the West Indies’ most successful lawyer before he entered politics in 1938.