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The Future of the British Caribbean Dependencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tony Thorndike
Tony Thorndike*
Affiliation:
Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke-on-Trent, England
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Robert F. Kennedy's observation that “progress is a nice word..but change is its motivator and change has its enemies,” could have been made for the remaining six, all physically small, British dependent territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). The persistent refusal by the majority of their respective peoples to consider independence, despite, in some of the territories, its propagation by political leaders and its blandishment — at least until recently — by the British, seems an anachronism.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 31 , Issue 3: Special Issue: The International Dynamics of the Commonwealth Caribbean , Fall 1989 , pp. 117 - 140
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Copyright © University of Miami 1989

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