Make Jamaica A Carribean Superpower?

This is probably the most realistic way for Jamaica to be a Caribbean leader. If Trinidad and Tobago had been less able to demand independence at the time (If a major hurricane had hit them soon after the founding of the WIF, for instance), the West Indies Federation would likely have stayed together with Jamaica as its only plausible center.

Problem: Trinidad lies outside of the hurricane belt, so it would be a very rare event, not to mention borderline ASB, to have a hurricane hit T&T.
 
Problem: Trinidad lies outside of the hurricane belt, so it would be a very rare event, not to mention borderline ASB, to have a hurricane hit T&T.

True, I didn't know that. Maybe an outbreak of racial violence between Indian and Afro-Caribbean communities? If the PoD had been slightly further back and have involved Garvey's black nationalism becoming a much stronger force in the Caribbean, Afro-Trinidadians might have wanted union with Jamaica in order to create a unified Afro-Caribbean state. With that PoD, Haiti might have joined up as well. A possible butterfly here might be increased activity and support for the Black Panthers, what with a sovereign state backing them up.
 
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