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	West Indies. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		West Indies) are Guadeloupe and its dependencies and Martinique.
		and administrative regions of France, P.R. is a commonwealth in association with the U.S., and the U.S.V.I. have territorial status.
		Each of the states was voluntarily associated with the U.K. and fully self-governing in its internal affairs.
	www.bartleby.com /69/91/W02191.html (545 words)

	West Indies Federation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federation of the West Indies, also known as the West Indian Federation was a short-lived, now defunct Caribbean federation that existed from January 3, 1958 to May 31, 1962.
		The federation's currency was the West Indies dollar, which later was succeeded by the East Caribbean dollar, the Jamaican dollar, the Barbados dollar, and the Trinidad and Tobago dollar.
		The two other campuses established was one to the twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago established in 1960, and one in the island of Barbados, established a short time after the Federation dissolved in 1963.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Indies_Federation (1798 words)

	AllRefer.com - West Indies Federation (Caribbean Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		West Indies Federation, former federation of 10 British West Indian territories formed in 1958.
		Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became independent members of the Commonwealth of Nations in 1962, as did Barbados in 1966 and the Bahamas in 1973.
		Each of the states was voluntarily associated with Great Britain and fully self-governing in its internal affairs.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/WIndFed.html (299 words)

	West Indies
		The West Indies Federation was formed out of the then British colonies in the West Indies in 1958 and it collapsed in 1962.
		I spotted a flag of the old West Indies Federation, blue with four white horizontal wavy lines and a gold disc in the centre, at the cricket test match between Australia and the West Indies held in Barbados over the weekend.
		The official description given in the West Indies Gazette is "Flag approved has blue ground with four white horizontal wavy bars (the top pair of bars being parallel and the lower pair also parallel) and an orange sun in the centre." Not the most enlightening description.
	flagspot.net /flags/gb-carib.html (858 words)

	Treaty establishing the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Member States agree to the progressive harmonisation of their fiscal policies, especially in the fields of taxation of companies and individuals and fiscal incentives extended to persons engaged in industry, agriculture and tourism.
		Each Member State shall retain, in regard its imports, the right of refusing to accept certificates from any authorised body which is shown to have repeatedly issued certificates in an improper manner, but such action shall not be taken without adequate prior notifications to the Exporting Member State of the grounds for dissatisfaction.
		In cases where the Member States concerned recognise that it is impracticable for the producer to make the declaration of origin specified in sub-paragraph (a) or paragraph 1 or in paragraph 3 of this Rule, the exporter may make that declaration in such form as those Member States may for the purpose specify.
	www.caricom.org /archives/treaty-oecs.htm (10689 words)

	West Indies Associated States -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Established in 1973 by 12 Caribbean countries, the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) is the successor to the Caribbean Free Trade Association (Carifta), which was founded in 1968 by five former British colonies (Antigua, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago), all of which joined the new organization.
		The West Indies derives its coherence and distinctiveness from a combination of four factors, one geographic,...
		Trinidad lies near the northeastern coast of Venezuela, from which it is separated by the shallow Gulf of Paria.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9103889 (899 words)

	WEST INDIES FEDERATION FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Federation was an internally self-governing, federal state made up of ten provinces (in the British_West_Indies), all British colonial possessions.
		The politics of the embryonic Federation were racked by struggles between the Federal govenrment and the State governments and between the larger states (Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago) and the smaller states.
		Thus each state functioned as a seperate economy complete with tariffs.The smaller states were afraid of being overwhelmed by the large island's economies.
	www.witwib.com /West_Indies_Federation (1607 words)

	NEVIS
		Formerly one of the West Indies Associated States, it became fully independent from the United Kingdom in 1983.
		The island was settled by the French in 1650; subsequently it was held alternately by English and French until 1783, when the island was ceded by treaty to Britain.
		Grenada remained a separate British colony until 1958 when it joined the Federation of the West Indies; in 1967, Grenada became one of the West Indies Associated States.
	www.offshore-manual.com /taxhavens/Nevis.html (1203 words)

	Grenada and Caribbean Lawyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He was Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Grenada and the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court and Registrar of the Court of Appeal.
		Margaret Wilkinson is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Bachelor of Laws, [Hons.] and the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad.
		West Indies, Bachelor of Laws, [Hons], the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Aberdeen University [U.K.] Master of Laws, [Distinction].
	www.spiceisle.com /wilkinson (317 words)

	Western Hemisphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Major island elements are Cuba, Hispaniola (the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the West Indies islands.
		It applies to most of the region south of the United States except areas with a British heritage: the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and various islands in the West Indies.
		West Indies An island chain extending in an eastward arc between the southeastern United States and the northern shore of South America, separating the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and including the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles.
	www.stthomas.edu /jour/apstyle/Western_Hemisphere.html (364 words)

	Saint Christopher, Caribbean - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation of, independent state, eastern Caribbean Sea, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, comprising two of the Leeward Islands, Saint Kitts (or Saint Christopher) and Nevis, in the West Indies.
		Under the 1983 constitution, the head of state is the British monarch, represented in Saint Kitts and Nevis by a governor-general.
		Saint Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla were united as a British dependency in 1871 that became an internally self-governing member of the West Indies Associated States in 1967.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /Saint_kitts_fortress.htm (621 words)

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		Nonetheless, although it is clear that the OECS was not established to assist its member states to achieve political integration, the organization's myriad achievements compel the rethinking of this goal.
		Ironically, the United States is supported by some of the banana producing countries of Central and South America, some of whom are members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), regional organizations in which Dominica and the other OECS member states hold membership.
		The inevitable fact is that Dominica and the OECS member states are confronted by a rapidly shifting global climate: witness the expansion of the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA), the EU and the Asian trading blocs.
	www.da-academy.org /ecintegrate.html (2857 words)

	General Comment (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
		The islands belonged to the West Indies Federation from 1958 until its dissolution in 1962, won home rule in 1969 as part of the West Indies Associated States, and achieved full independence on 27 October 1979.
		The executive branch includes the Queen of England as the Chief of State (represented by a Governor-General) and a cabinet headed by the Prime Minister.
		The Parliament comprises the Queen of England (represented by the Governor-General) and a unicameral House of Assembly.
	www.icrc.org /ihl-nat.nsf/162d151af444ded44125673e00508141/87b9ccb12615062b41256ca6004d6e12?OpenDocument (280 words)

	Associated Statehood in International Law
		The Evolution of the Concept of the Associated State Under the United Nations Charter.
		‘Caught in the uncertainties attached to the construct of “Associated Statehood”, the academic value of Igarashi’s comprehensive study lays in the detailed fashion in which he describes the emergence of associated states (case studies).
		[…] His study certainly deserves credit for reinitiating the conceptual discussion concerning associated statehood under international law and allowing for practitioners as well as scholars to obtain a valuable overview of the development of the concept and the peculiarities of each case.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=20661 (144 words)

	flag of Associate State of Staint Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla (1967-1969) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Previous flag of the Associate State of Staint Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla (1957-1967)
		The light blue color shows this flag as a one of the West Indies associated states, along with the similarly colored contemporary flags of Grenada and St.
		The vertical tricolour with the palmtree was adopted on 27 February 1967 when St.Christopher (=St.Kitts) - Nevis - Anguilla became an Associate State.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/kn-ai.html (127 words)

	Address by Honourable Lester Bird at the 21st Anniversary of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I recall the decisive meeting in St Lucia in May 1979 of the then West Indies (Associated States) Council of Ministers under the Chairmanship of Paul Southwell at which we made the momentous decision to establish the Organisation.
		The third issue that bedevilled the Caribbean was the fact that the countries of our sub-region were heading to separate independence from Britain placing at risk the valuable, common institutions that we shared within the West Indies (Associated States) Council of Ministers and the Eastern Caribbean Common Market.
		The problems associated with policing and prisons in the context of public safety should no longer be longer be deferred for urgent attention.
	www.foreignaffairs.gov.ag /OECS_21_anniversary.htm (3092 words)

	Dominica: Transitional Provisions
		This Order, which is made at the request and with the consent of the Associated State of Dominica under section 5(4) of the West Indies Act 1967.
		In this article "the Supreme Court Order" means the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court Order 1967(c) in so far as it has effect as part of the law of Dominica and includes any law in force in Dominica amending that Order.
		The status of association of Dominica with the United Kingdom terminates with effect from 3rd November 1978.
	www.georgetown.edu /pdba/Constitutions/Dominica/sch2.html (2929 words)

	The University of the West Indies and Montserrat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The University of the West Indies and Montserrat
		In 1956 Montserrat, along with Antigua, St Kitts and Nevis and Anguilla, were combined as one colony known as the Leeward Islands and in 1958 the islands were incorporated into the Federation of the West Indies.
		In 1967 Montserrat elected to remain a British colony rather than become one of the West Indies Associated States.
	www.uwi.edu /territories/montserrat.htm (208 words)

	British Virgin Islands - Island Sun Newspaper
		PROMINENT BVI ATTORNEY APPOINTED JUDGE OF E.C. The BVI Bar Association is confident that newly appointed Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, Mr.
		Archibald served as a judge of the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court in 1978 and as a judge in the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean States in 1997.
		The new Justice of Appeal is a founder member of the BVI Bar Association and served as President from 1986 to 1994.
	www.islandsun.com /2001-July/200701/local4-v5i18.html (915 words)

	St. Lucia: Oasis Marigot: Oasis Marigot is a small hotel and secluded Caribbean property overlooking beautiful Marigot ...
		Throughout the country, the number to dial for all police, fire, and medical emergencies is 911.
		The second largest of the former West Indies Associated States, the avocado-shaped St. Lucia lies between Martinique and St. Vincent in the Windward Islands chain of the eastern Caribbean.
		Although the island gained control of its own government on 22 February 1979, its official head of state still remains the British throne, represented by a governor general who appoints the 11 members of St. Lucia's senate.
	www.oasismarigot.com /aboutstlucia.html (528 words)

	ResponsibleSkin: April 2004
		It was established in 1905 on land purchased by the A.C. Frost Company, a subsidiary of the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railroad (the Chicago and North Western Railroad now bisects the property).
		Formed at the urging of Britain and the United States, the Central Treaty Organization was intended to counter the threat of Soviet
		The ability of some nematodes and rotifers to survive drying or freezing conditions in a state of suspended animation, i.e., cryptobiosis or anabiosis, has enabled them to inhabit the driest deserts and the coldest polar regions, as long as free water occurs occasionally and for long enough periods of time for them to reproduce.
	responsibleskin.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_responsibleskin_archive.html (1399 words)

	Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Section 17 of the Courts Order empowers the Chief Justice and two judges of the Supreme Court, selected by the Chief Justice, to make rules of court for regulating the practice and procedure of the Court of Appeal and the High Court.
		The four member Court of Appeal is itinerant and sits in each member state to hear appeals.
		The Court of Appeal hears appeals from the decisions of the High Court and Magistrates’ Courts in member states in both the Civil and the Criminal matters.
	www.oecs.org /inst_ecsc.htm (424 words)

	West Indies Federation - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		West Indies Federation - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
		A group of ten former British colonies in the West Indies, including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados.
		It was established in 1958 and slated for independence in 1962 but broke up in May 1962 because of economic disagreements among the members.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/w/w0100800.html (85 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Dominica, 1871-1978
		In 1958 Dominica joined the FEDERATION OF THE WEST INDIES, which was dissolved in 1962.
		In 1967 it became member of the WEST INDIES ASSOCIATED STATES and gained SELF-GOVERNMENT; in 1978 it was granted independence.
		Late in the 19th century plantation economy was given up and Dominica ceased to produce crops for export.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/caribbean/dominica18711978.html (157 words)

	Cruise Genie: Dominica
		Caribbean Itinerary (Fort De France on map is in Martinque, French West Indies.
		Apart from its natural splendours, including the highest mountains in the Eastern Caribbean, the island has an interesting fusion of British, French and West Indian cultural traditions, and is home to the Eastern Caribbean's largest Carib Indian community.
		Along with other Windward Isles, it became a self-governing member of the West Indies Associated States in free association with Britain in 1967.
	www.thecruisegenie.com /dominica.html (1139 words)

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		With his wife, Chloe, whom he met at the Chateau Laurier, he embarked upon a career that landed him a series of influential postings, including high commissioner in Trinidad, Tobago, and Barbados, Canadian commissioner to the West Indies and Associated States, ambassador to the OECD in Paris and ambassador to Mexico.
		He is also known for his role in energy negotiations between Mexico and Canada, and on developing Canada's aid program in the wake of the breakup of the West Indian Federation.
		"He was sitting on his boat in a harbor in the West Indies.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /davmc/jrm1.htm (589 words)

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		The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), a Regional Organization, was established on June 18, 1981, with the signing of the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed.
		Two caretaker bodies preceded the creation of the OECS: the 1966 West Indies Associated States Council of Ministers (WISA), and the Eastern Caribbean Common Market (ECCM) of 1968.
		However, with the attainment of independence by many of the islands in the 1970’s, it was recognized that there was need for a formal arrangement to assist in meeting the development efforts of the islands.
	www.oecs.org /ottawa/about-oecs.html (340 words)

	History - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Caribbean: christopher columbus, history saint, island search, saint ...
		Saint Vincent was a member of the Federation of the West Indies from 1958 to 1962.
		In 1969 it became an internally self-governing member of the West Indies Associated States.
		On October 27, 1979, it received full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
	www.countriesquest.com /caribbean/saint_vincent_and_the_grenadines/history.htm (135 words)

	Caribbeanedu.com \| Caribbean Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anguilla, having broken away unilaterally from St. Kitts-Nevis in 1967, became an Associated State of Great Britain in 1976.
		West Indies Federation of 10 British West Indian territories formed
		The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (0ECS) came into being on June 18th 1981.
	www.caribbeanedu.com /odyssey/Timeliner/timeliner09.asp (327 words)

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