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of Southern Rhodesia had declared their independence from Britain in 1923). The British West Indies comprised the Bahamas, Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward Islands of Antigua, Montserrat, St Christopher, Nevis, the Virgin Islands, and the Windward Islands of Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. 26 The net effect of the new development ethos that emerged in the 1940s, coupled with policies intended to cultivate political change, was to give officials at the Colonial Office a reinvigorated sense of purpose
postwar migration of West Indians to Britain was well under way, and when a West Indian Federation came briefly into being, the participating territories comprised Jamaica in the western Caribbean, and Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St Vincent, St Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, St Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Montserrat in the eastern Caribbean. Neither of the two mainland colonies, British Guiana
assistance for the West Indies were not realised. The funds that were raised included £250,000 to establish an agricultural bank for sugar planters, a road-building grant for Dominica, and money for establishing peasant smallholdings in St Vincent. 22 The most notable outcome of the recommendations of the West India report was the creation of the Imperial Department of Agriculture in Barbados in 1898, headed by Daniel Morris, previously the assistant director of Kew Gardens in London. 23 A programme of sugar cane breeding aimed at developing higher-yielding varieties of
and James. Returned to Dominica in 1957 to participate in the election, on behalf of the Dominica Labour Party which she had founded two years earlier. Died in 1986. 45 David Pitt, born in Grenada in 1913; studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Returned to St Vincent and Trinidad. Back in Britain, his surgery in Gower Street
.’ 115 Notes 1 Emery, Red Soldier , pp. 258–62; and Marching Over Africa , pp. 185–6. 2 S. Clark (ed.), Invasion of Zululand 1879: Anglo-Zulu War Experiences of Arthur Harness; John Jervis, 4th Viscount St Vincent; and