| Description | File of correspondence and reports concerning: growth of United States (US) banking operations in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands; exchange control regulations and sterling restrictions; tax havens; draft banking legislation; model investment protection agreements with the Associated States, and attracting British investment capital to the area; and the Port of Spain agreement, 1976, establishing a programme of action for the stabilisation of the region's economy (with copy of a newspaper article). Includes: copy of agreement establishing the Caribbean Investment Corporation, 1974; diplomatic reports concerning the West Indies Associated States - annual reviews for 1974-76; report on a visit to Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica and Grand Cayman, 1973; report on trip to eastern Caribbean, 1975. |