High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article examines the monetary systems that prevailed in the region known as the British West Indies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The territories covered in this article include British Guiana on the South American mainland, British Honduras in Central America, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Jamaica, along with its former dependencies the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It also includes the Eastern Caribbean territories of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands.