Jamaica suffers the planet's second-highest murder rate, and St Kitts and Nevis ranks third.

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Anguilla broke away from St Kitts and Nevis and became a British overseas territory in 1980.

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An American travel advisory for St Kitts-Nevis gives warning only of petty crime.

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With just under 50, 000 people, St Kitts-Nevis suffered 23 murders in 2008.

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There are two others in the Caribbean (St Kitts-Nevis and St Vincent) and four in the Pacific (Niue, Nauru and the Cook and Marshall Islands), as well as Panama and Liechtenstein.

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Persistent tensions over Anguilla's political status came to a head in 1967 when Britain created a self-governing entity which encompassed Anguilla and the islands of St Kitts and Nevis to the south.

BBC: Anguilla profile

Kitts and Nevis Information Service, Basseterre, St.

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