AMR TRAVEL CLUB
ANTIGUA....the Siboney were the first to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 BC but Arawak and Carib Amerindian tribes populated the islands when Christopher Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493.
Early settlements by the Spanish and Fench were succeeded by the English who formed a colony in 1667. The islands becam an independent state in the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.
