Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Mexico and Caribbean Department: Registered Files...

FCO 99

1977-1990

This series consists of registered files produced by the Mexico and Caribbean Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The files relate to relations with Mexico and the Caribbean Countries.

Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.

For earlier material on British relations with Caribbean countries see FCO 63

AC file series

Public Record(s)

English and Spanish

3416 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

Foreign and Commonwealth Office , from 2008

Topics

International

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Americas

Series began in 1977

Series is accruing.

Records selected by the FCO under TNA supervision under section 2.2.2.3 of the TNA acquisition policy, dealing with the history of the conduct of the UK's external relations

The Mexico and Caribbean Department was formed in 1977 in succession to the Caribbean Department (1970-1977). At its creation, the department had responsibilities for the following: Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatamala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Surinam. It later also acquired responsibilities for the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, St Lucia and St Vincent.

The Mexico and Caribbean Department ran until 1982 when it was succeeded by the Mexican and Central American Department.