The University of the West Indies (UWI) was established 1948 as the University College of the West Indies (UCWI) to serve the then British colonies of Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, British Guy ana (now Guyana), British Honduras (now Belize), the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. The UCWI, located at Mona, Jamaica, began under a Royal Charter granted on January 9, 1949, under the tutelage of the University of London, and its degrees were external degrees of that university. Other campuses were later established, first at St. Augustine, Trinidad, in 1962, and then at Cave Hill, Barbados, in 1963. In 1962 the UCWI was granted its own charter, becoming the full-fledged University of the West Indies (UWI).