Comprises: (items 1-6) memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the Cabinet Commonwealth Affairs Committee on 'Population Problems in the West Indies', with other memoranda on the same subject drawn up by the Colonial Office for the Colonial Economic and Development Council 1948, and the Governors' Conference 1949; also, notes by Creech Jones, 9 Feb 1949 (items 7-9)...

Comprises: (item 1) brief by W.D. Sweeney on development schemes in British Guiana (Guyana), 8 Jul 1948 (item 2) brief on Montague Meyer's forestry project in British Guiana (Guyana), with correspondence from Sir Charles Woolley and Meyer, 12 Jul 1948 (item 3) 'Survey of Forest Resources of British Guiana' by C.B. Dix, 1 May 1948 (item 4) personal notes...

Comprises: (item 1) brief by Angus Mackintosh on development plans for British Honduras (Belize), with attached departmental minutes, 7-10 Apr 1948 (item 2) text of a despatch to the Governor of British Honduras (Belize) on unemployment relief, with attached minutes, 1-2 Nov 1948 (item 3) memorandum by the Delegation from the Executive Council of British Honduras...

Comprises: (item 1) despatch from the Secretary of State to Sir John Huggins, Governor, on the Ten-Year Development Plan for Jamaica, 8 May 1947 (item 2) brief on 'Jamaicans arriving at Tilbury', n.d.

Comprises: (items 1-4) memorandum on the 'Project for the socialisation of the St Kitts' Sugar Industry' and notes of private meetings at the Colonial Office, marked A, B, and C, and a covering minute (item 5) draft note on 'Nationalisation of the Leeward Islands Sugar Factories', Nov 1949 (item 6) memorandum on 'The Sugar Economy of the Island of St Kitts', n.d. ...