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IN AUGUST 1962, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became the first two British colonies in the English-speaking Caribbean to gain Independence. Since then, another 13 former British colonies in the anglophone Caribbean, culminating with St Kitts and Nevis in 1983, have joined the ranks of independent states.
Territorial conflicts in the Caribbean between the British and Spanish eventually led to the Brit's taking total control of the island in 1655. When the English captured Jamaica the Spanish colonists fled after freeing their slaves. Those slaves fled into the mountains and lived with the Tainos.