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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.
  in Jamaica was initially a Spanish colony, but was taken from Spain by England in 1655. and gained independence from the U.K on August 6 1962.amaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 145 miles in length and as much as 50 miles in width. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about 90 miles south of eastern â¦ Cuba and west of southern Haiti.