Caribbean Facts & Figures

The Caribbean is made up of 7,000 islands

Jamaica is the biggest English speaking island in the Caribbean

Approximately 4 million tourists visit the Bahamas every year

Special vaccines are usually not required when visiting St. Kitts

Amongst the largest of the Caribbean countries are Belize, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Dominican Republic, St. Lucia and Puerto Rico

St. Lucia gained independence from Britain in 1979 and although the official language is English the French-based patois is also commonly spoken

The best time to visit Antigua is in the dry and cooler winter months of December to April

Aruba is mainly Dutch speaking with a population of around 70,500

Belize was formerly known as British Honduras

Jamaica has a population of around 2.6 million people

The Bahamas is an archipelago of approximately 700 islands lying just north of the Caribbean Sea

Martinique is dominated by the volcano, Mount Pelee which erupted in 1902 destroying the city of Saint Pierre and killing 30,000 people

Trinidad and Tobago has a population of around 1,305,000 and its capital city is Port-of-Spain

Cuba boasts more than 280 beaches

The average climate in Antigua is a warm 75 degrees F

Pitch Lake on Trinidad contains the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt

The St. Kitts Music Festival is a festival of popular music which is held annually in June

Jamaica boasts outstanding bio-diversity with pine forests, cloud forests, mangrove swamps and rainforests as well as lush tropical and fertile land

The Bahamas consists of 700 islands which dot the Atlantic Ocean from Florida stopping just short of Haiti

Barbados is home to the 3rd oldest parliament in the world boasting 358 years of a parliamentary based government

Barbados has a population of around 254,000 and its capital is Bridgetown

Antigua has a population of around 68,320 and its capital city is St. Johns

Jamaica is home to more than 250 species of birds and reptiles

Barbados always flew the British flag before achieving independence in 1966

Cuba is the biggest island in the Caribbean, its capital city being Havana with a population of around 2m

Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean after Cuba and Hispaniola (home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic)

In 1889 the islands of Trinidad and Tobago were united as one territory and later became a republic in 1976