The island was a British colony for more than a century, and is now a member of the Commonwealth, but it has retained its French Creole character.
1997. In May, small-scale armed clashed occurred between Honduran and Nicaraguan gunboats in the Gulf of Fonseca. The conflict stemmed from unresolved negotiations among Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras over the boundaries of jurisdictional waters in that particular area.
The island was a British colony for more than a century, and is now a member of the Commonwealth, but it has retained its French Creole character.
