The British West Indies is the largest group of ... large part by the happy British acknowledgement that the Indies belong to the people living there. The British want cooperation, not servility.

At 5:20 p.m. one day last week, a delegate burst from a closed hall in Jamaica’s University College of the West Indies, where the British West Indies federation conference was meeting, ...

Lister explains how the West Indies Federation developed in the late 1950’s and early ... then those are important things in people’s lives.” ...

A new nation—the British Caribbean Federation—was born in London last week as 16 delegates from the British West Indies signed a list of agreements over disputed points in its draft constitution.