Caribbean Link for Guiding
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The Caribbean Link for Guiding is a consortium of 21 Girl Guide Associations from throughout the Caribbean
. These include associations from independent countries as well as from British Overseas Territories, coordinated by Girlguiding UK
. It was created in 1958.
. Although the West Indies Federation was dissolved, it was decided at a Commissioners conference in 1962 in Dominica
to continue the group. The name was changed to the Caribbean Link for Guiding.
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
. These include associations from independent countries as well as from British Overseas Territories, coordinated by Girlguiding UK
Girlguiding UK
Girlguiding UK is the national Guiding organisation of the United Kingdom. Guiding began in the UK in 1910 after Robert Baden-Powell asked his sister Agnes to start a group especially for girls that would be run along similar lines to Scouting for Boys. The Guide Association was a founder member of...
. It was created in 1958.
Members
- AnguillaAnguillaAnguilla is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Caribbean. It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin...
- Girlguiding Anguilla, a branch association of Girlguiding UK - Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...
- The Girl Guides Association of Antigua and BarbudaThe Girl Guides Association of Antigua and BarbudaThe Girl Guides Association of Antigua and Barbuda is the Guiding organization of Antigua and Barbuda. It serves 718 members . Founded in 1931, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1984 and a full member in 2002.The Girl... - ArubaArubaAruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...
- Het Arubaanse Padvindsters GildeHet Arubaanse Padvindsters GildeHet Arubaanse Padvindsters Gilde is the national Guiding organization of Aruba. It serves 185 members... - Bahamas - The Bahamas Girl Guides AssociationThe Bahamas Girl Guides AssociationThe Bahamas Girl Guides Association is the national Guiding organization of the Bahamas. It serves 2,303 members . Founded in 1915, the coeducational organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1975....
- BarbadosBarbadosBarbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
- The Girl Guide Association of BarbadosThe Girl Guide Association of BarbadosThe Girl Guide Association of Barbados is the national Guiding organization on Barbados. It serves 3,863 members . Founded in 1918, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1969.The first Guide meeting in Barbados was held on... - BelizeBelizeBelize is a constitutional monarchy and the northernmost country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Even though Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official...
- The Girl Guides Association of BelizeThe Girl Guides Association of BelizeThe Girl Guides Association of Belize is the national Guiding organization of Belize. It serves 412 members as of 2006. Founded in 1937, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1987 and a full member in 1993.-References:... - BermudaBermudaBermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
- Girlguiding BermudaGirlguiding BermudaGirlguiding Bermuda is a Guiding organisation in Bermuda. It is one of the nine branch associations of Girlguiding UK. It is represented by Girlguiding UK at World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts level and Girlguiding UK's Chief Guide is also Chief Guide for Girlguiding Bermuda...
, a branch association of Girlguiding UK - British Virgin IslandsBritish Virgin IslandsThe Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands , is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S...
- The British Virgin Islands Girl Guide Association, a branch association of Girlguiding UK - Cayman IslandsCayman IslandsThe Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...
- Girlguiding Cayman Islands, a branch association of Girlguiding UK - DominicaDominicaDominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
- The Girl Guides Association of DominicaThe Girl Guides Association of DominicaThe Girl Guides Association of Dominica is the national Guiding organization of Dominica. It serves 376 members . Founded in 1929, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1987 and a full member in 2008... - GrenadaGrenadaGrenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...
- The Girl Guides Association of GrenadaThe Girl Guides Association of GrenadaThe Girl Guides Association of Grenada is the national Guiding organization of Grenada. It serves 1518 members as of 2006. Founded in 1925, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1990.-References:... - GuyanaGuyanaGuyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
- Guyana Girl Guides AssociationGuyana Girl Guides AssociationThe Guyana Girl Guides Association is the national Guiding organization of Guyana. It serves 819 members . Founded in 1922, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1969.... - JamaicaJamaicaJamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
- The Girl Guides Association of JamaicaThe Girl Guides Association of JamaicaThe Girl Guides Association of Jamaica is the Guiding organization of Jamaica. It served 5,903 members . Founded in 1915, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1963 and a full member in 1966.-History:Girl Guiding was... - MontserratMontserratMontserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...
- Girlguiding Montserrat, a branch association of Girlguiding UK - Netherlands AntillesNetherlands AntillesThe Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...
- Padvindstersvereniging van de Nederlandse AntillenPadvindstersvereniging van de Nederlandse AntillenThe Padvindstersvereniging van de Nederlandse Antillen is the national Guiding organization of the former Netherlands Antilles. It serves 461 members... - Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Kitts and NevisThe Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest sovereign state in the Americas, in both area and population....
- The Girl Guides Association of Saint Christopher and NevisThe Girl Guides Association of Saint Christopher and NevisThe Girl Guides Association of Saint Christopher and Nevis is the national Guiding organization of Saint Kitts and Nevis. It serves 290 members . Founded in 1931, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1993.-See also:*The... - Saint LuciaSaint LuciaSaint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...
- Girl Guides Association of Saint LuciaGirl Guides Association of Saint LuciaThe Girl Guides Association of Saint Lucia is the national Guiding organisation of Saint Lucia. It serves 2,181 members . Founded in 1925, the girls-only organisation became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1984... - Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....
- Girl Guides Association of Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesGirl Guides Association of Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesThe Girl Guides Association of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the national Guiding organization of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It serves 1,162 members . Founded in 1914, the girls-only organization became a full member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1984.-See... - Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
- The Girl Guides Association of Trinidad and TobagoThe Girl Guides Association of Trinidad and TobagoThe Girl Guides Association of Trinidad and Tobago is the national Guiding organization of Trinidad and Tobago. It serves 3,065 members... - Turks and Caicos - Turks and Caicos Islands branch of Girlguiding UK
History
The Federal Link of the Girl Guides Associations of the West Indies was formed in April 1958 in Trinidad, in the context of the West Indies FederationWest Indies Federation
The West Indies Federation, also known as the Federation of the West Indies, was a short-lived Caribbean federation that existed from January 3, 1958, to May 31, 1962. It consisted of several Caribbean colonies of the United Kingdom...
. Although the West Indies Federation was dissolved, it was decided at a Commissioners conference in 1962 in Dominica
Dominica
Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
to continue the group. The name was changed to the Caribbean Link for Guiding.