Antigua and Barbuda is a multiparty, parliamentary democracy, and a member of the Commonwealth. As such, the British monarch – and head of the Church of England – is its head of state. In September 2022, the nation’s prime minister announced their intention to call a referendum on becoming a […]

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is an island country consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean. The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973. It is a constitutional parliamentary democracy. The population is estimated to be 389,482 according to 2019 World Bank estimates.1https://datacommons.org/place/country/BHS?utm_medium=explore&mprop=count&popt=Person&hl=en […]

A sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles, Barbados is a parliamentary democracy with an estimated population of 269,809 at the end of 2021. According to the Barbados Statistical Service, the population is shrinking with the death rate continuously exceeding the birth rate since 2016.1https://stats.gov.bb/subjects/social-demographic-statistics/population-demography-statistics/ The population is predominantly Christian […]

The largest island country in the Caribbean, Cuba has a population of approximately 11 million. The Republic of Cuba is one of the world’s last remaining Communist states. There is no official state religion, however a majority of the population are Christian (58.9%). The nonreligious make up the next largest […]

Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is a parliamentary democracy located in the Caribbean. Dominica is the sole republic within the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).1https://www.oecs.org/en/who-we-are/member-states It gained independence from Britain in 1978, however many of its laws and institutions still remain under British colonial influence today. According to […]

A former Spanish colony, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. Discrimination against Dominicans of Haitian descent and Haitian migrants is a significant problem in the country.1“Dominican Republic: IACHR urges the State to Eradicate Statelessness”, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 29 September 2023, […]

Grenada is a country consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. After centuries of colonial rule under France and subsequently Britain, Grenada became a fully independent state in February 1974. Grenada is now a parliamentary democracy […]

A multi-party, semi-presidential republic, the island of Haiti gained independence in 1804, making it the first modern independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean. Haiti is predominantly a Christian country, with the largest denomination being Roman Catholicism. Many Haitians (regardless of religious affiliation) also hold spiritual beliefs deriving from […]

Jamaica is a small island nation in the Caribbean of around 2.8 million people. Where once 98% of the population ascribed to a Christian denomination, this figure has now reduced to 60% of the population is Christian. There are significant populations of religious minorities, most notably Rastafarians.1https://www.visitjamaica.com/feel-the-vibe/people/faith/ Those who identify […]

Saint Kitts and Nevis, also known as The Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is a two-island nation in the Caribbean which maintains a multi-party parliamentary democracy political system under a constitutional monarchy. According to the most recently available census (2011), 83% of the 47,000 population identified as Christian, the […]

Saint Lucia is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea which maintains a multi-party parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. A former French and, subsequently, British colony, Saint Lucia remains a member of the Commonwealth, and a member state of the Organization of American States. Just over 90% of […]

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is an island in the Lesser Antilles Island arc. The territory of the island consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the two-thirds of the Grenadines, which are a chain of smaller islands. SVG is a member of the Commonwealth. Its ceremonial […]

Located in the Caribbean, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago – comprising the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as several small islands – is a parliamentary democracy that declared its independence from Britain in 1962. It is one of the wealthiest in the Caribbean, due to its large […]