Following Haiti, the Dominican Republic in 1844 and Cuba in 1898 were the next to gain their independence. Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago were the first British colonies to gain independence in 1962 followed by Guyana and Barbados in 1966, the Bahamas in 1973, Grenada in 1974, Dominica in 1978, St. Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines in 1979, Antigua in 1980, Belize in 1981 and St. Kitts & Nevis in 1983. In late 1987, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands remained crown colonies with limited internal self-government. Anguilla, having broken away unilaterally from St. Kitts-Nevis in 1967, became an Associated State of Great Britain in 1976. Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba are still dependents of The Netherlands, as are Guadeloupe and Martinique of France, and Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands of Britain.