Currency

The U.S. dollar is the official currency on several islands: the United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the British Virgin Islands, and the Turks and Caicos. Many of the smaller eastern Caribbean islands--Dominica, Antigua, and Barbuda, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, and Nevis, and others --use a common currency known as the EC or Eastern Caribbean dollar. Others have their own currency: the Jamaican dollar, the Dominican peso, or the Aruban florin. Even on islands with their own currency, the U.S