Saint Lucia
 

1781-1783, 1794-1795, 1796-1802, 1803-1875                              1875 - 16 Aug 1939                       16 Aug 1939 - 1 Mar 1967                 16 Aug 1939 - 1 Mar 1967 Unofficial                 1 Mar 1967 - 22 Feb 1979                        22 Feb 1979 - 22 Feb 2002                          Adopted 22 Feb 2002   Map of St. Lucia Hear National Anthem "Sons and Daughters of St. Lucia" Text of National Anthem Adopted 1979 Constitution  (22 Feb 1979) Capital: Castries (Le Carenage 1651-1785) Currency: East Caribbean Dollar (XCD)  National Holiday: 22 Feb (1979) Independence Day Population: 159,585 (2008) GDP: $1.80 billion (2008) Exports: $288 million (2006) Imports: $791 million (2006) Ethnic groups: black 82.5%, mixed 11.9%, East Indian 2.4%, other 3.1% (2000) Total Police Force and Coast Guard: 300 (2004) Merchant marine: None (2008)  Religions: Roman Catholic 67.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 8.5%, Pentecostal 5.7%, Rastafarian 2.1%, Anglican 2%, Evangelical 2%, other Christian 5.1%, other 1.1%, unspecified 1.5%,  none 4.5% (2001) International Organizations/Treaties: ACP, ACS, APM, BTWC, C, Caricom, CDB, CTBT, ENMOD, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO,  ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITU, ITUC, KP, MIGA, NAM, NPT, OAS, OECS, OIF, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCC, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Saint Lucia Chronology 13 Dec 1502                Discovered by Christopher Columbus and claimed                              for Spain, named Isla de Santa Lucia. 23 Aug 1605 - Sep 1605     First attempted English settlement. 1638 - Aug 1640            Second attempted English settlement. 1643                       French colony (Sainte-Lucie). 1664 - 16 Feb 1666         English occupation. 1667 - 1674                Administered by the Compagnie des Indies                               Occidentales. 1674                       French crown colony, as a dependency of Martinique. 16 Dec 1722 - Jan 1723     English settlement at Petit Carenage, opposed by                              the French. 1723 - 1744                Neutral territory agreed by Britain and France in                              the Treaty of Choc, but French settlers remain. 1744                       French colony (Sainte-Lucie). 18 Oct 1748 - 1756         Declared Neutral territory by Treaty of Aix La                              Chapelle (French do not evacuate and island                               remains de facto a French possession). 25 Feb 1762 - 10 Feb 1763  British occupation. 28 Dec 1778 -  3 Jan 1784  British occupation.  4 Apr 1794 - 18 Jun 1795  British occupation. 25 May 1796 - 27 Mar 1802  British occupation. 25 Oct 1797 - 19 Apr 1801  Nominally organized as Lucie département of France                             (Saint Lucia and Tobago; not effected due to                              British occupation). 1802                       Restored to France. 21 Jun 1803                British colony (Saint Lucia). 30 May 1814                British possession confirmed.  1838                       British crown colony. 1838 -  1 Jan 1960         Part of the Windward Islands colony (see Grenada).  3 Jan 1958 - 31 May 1962  Part of the Federation of the West Indies                              (see Trinidad and Tobago).  1 Mar 1967                Associated state 22 Feb 1979                Independence from Britain (St. Lucia).

Governors 
23 Aug 1605 - Sep 1605     Nicholas St. John
1638 - Aug 1640            Judlee (or Jadlee)
1643 - 1654                Louis de Kerengoan, sieur          (d. 1654)
                             de Rousselan 
1654                       La Rivière                         (d. 1654)
1654 - 1656                Jean Haquet                        (d. 1656)
1656                       Breton
1656                       Sieur de Coutis
1656 - 1660                Aygremeont                         (d. 1660)
1660                       Le Lande                           (d. 1660)
1660 - 1664                LeSieur Bonnard 
1664 - 16 Feb 1666         Thomas Warner, Jr.
1666 - 1667                Crook
1667 - Dec 1722            ....
16 Dec 1722 - Jan 1723     Nathaniel Uring (or Wring)
                             (deputy governor)
1723 - 1744                None
Commandant
1744 - 25 Feb 1762         de Longueville
Governors
25 Feb 1762 - 10 Feb 1763  George Brydges Rodney              (b. 1718 - d. 1792)
                             (1st time)
10 Feb 1763 - 1764         Pierre Lucien de La Chapelle 
                             de Jumilhac
1764 - 1772                Claude Ann Gui chavelier de Micoud
18 Feb 1772 - Nov 1773     Frédéric Laure de Kearney          (b. 1721? - d. 1773)
Nov 1773 - 1776            Alexandre Potier de Courcy         (b. 1725 - d. 1777)
1776 - 28 Dec 1778         Marc Étienne de Joubert
1776 - 28 Dec 1778         Claude Ann Gui chavelier de Micoud
                             (acting for Joubert)
28 Dec 1778 -  1 Aug 1779  James Grant (commander)            (b. 1720 - d. 1806)
Aug 1779 - 1780            William Medows (commander)         (b. 1739 - d. 1813)
Feb 1780 - 1781            Sir George Brydges Rodney          (s.a.)
                             (2nd time)
1781 - 1784                Anthony St. Leger                  (b. 1731 - d. 1786)
                             (military governor)  
 3 Jan 1784 - 1789         Jean Zénon André de Véron de       (d. 1789)
                             Labourie, baron de Labourie
1789 - 1792                Jean-Joseph Soubader de Gimat      (b. 1747 - d. ....)
1792                       Montdenoix
                           + Linger
                           (acting)
1792 - 1793                Lacrosse -Commissioner
 3 Feb 1793 - 4 Apr 1794   Nicolas Xavier de Ricard
 4 Apr 1794 - 1795         Sir Charles Gordon                 (b. 1756 - d. 1835)
1795 - 18 Jun 1795         James Stewart  
Jun 1795 - 25 May 1796     Gaspard Goyrand -Commissioner      (b. 1764 - d. 1866)
25 May 1796 - May 1796     Sir Ralph Abercromby               (b. 1734 - d. 1801)
May 1796 - 1797            John Moore                         (b. 1761 - d. 1809)
1797 - Jul 1798            James Durmmond
Jul 1798 - 27 Sep 1802     George Prevost                     (b. 1767 - d. 1816)
                             (military governor to 16 May 1801)
1802                       George Henry Vansittart            (b. 1768 - d. 1824)
1802 - 21 Jun 1803         Jean François Xavier Nogues        (b. 1769 - d. 1808)
1803 - 1807                Robert Brereton
1807 - 1814                Alexander Wood
1814 - 1815                Francis Delaval
1815 - 1816                Edward Stehelin                    (b. c.1759 - d. 1827)
1816                       Robert Douglas
1816 - 21 Oct 1817         Richard Augustus Seymour           (d. 1817)
1817 - 1818                Edward O'Hara
1818 - 1819                John Keane                         (b. 1781 - d. 1844)
1819 - 1821                John Joseph Winkler
1821 - 1824                John Montagu Mainwaring (1st time) (b. 1761 - d. 1842)
1824 - 1826                Nathaniel Shepherd Blackwell
1826 - 1827                John Montagu Mainwaring (2nd time) (s.a.)
1827 - 1829                Lorenzo Moore
1829 - 18 Dec 1829         David Stewart                      (b. 1772 - d. 1829)
1829 - 1830                Francis Power
1830 - 1831                James Alexander Farquharson        (b. 1775 - d. 1834)
                             (1st time)
1831                       George Mackie
1831 - 1832                Mark Anthony Bozon
1832 - 1834                James Alexander Farquharson        (s.a.)
                             (2nd time)
Lieutenant governors
1834 - 1837                Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill          (b. 1790 - d. 1851)
1837 - 1838                Thomas Bunbury                     (d. 1857)
1838 - 1839                John Alexander Mein
1839 - 1841                Mathias Everard                    (b. 17.. - d. 1857)
1841 - 1843                George Graydon
1843 - 1844                Andrew Clarke                      (b. 1793 - d. 1847)
1844 - 1848                Arthur Wellesley Torrens           (b. 1809 - d. 1855)
1848 - 1852                Charles Henry Darling              (b. 1809 - d. 1870)
1852                       Henry Clermont Cobbe
1852 - 1857                Maurice Power
Administrators
1857 - 1862                Henry Heggart Breen                (b. 1805 - d. 1881)
1862 - 1869                James Mayer Grant
21 May 1869 - 1878         William Des Voeux                  (b. 1834 - d. 1909)
1878 - 1879                Arthur Elibank Havelock            (b. 1844 - d. 1908)
1881 - 1884                Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy        (b. 1839 - d. 1900)
1885 - 1889                Edward Daniel Laborde              (b. 1863 - d. 19..)
Commissioners
1889 - 1891                Robert Baxter Llewelyn             (b. 1845 - d. 1919)
1891 - 1897                Valesius Skipton Gouldsbury        (b. 1839 - d. 1896)
1897 - 1899                Charles Anthony King-Harman        (b. 1851 - d. 1939)
1900 - 1902                Harry Langhorne Thompson           (b. 1857/58 - d. 1902)
1902 - 1905                Sir George Melville                (b. 1842 - d. 1924)
Jul 1905 - Nov 1905        Edward Daniel Laborde (acting)     (s.a.)
1905 - 1909                Philip Clark Cork                  (b. 1854 - d. 1936)
1909 - 1914                Edward John Cameron                (b. 1858 - d. 1947)
1914                       Anthony De Freitas (acting)        (b. 1869 - d. 19..)
1914 - 1915                William Douglas Young              (b. 1859 - d. 1943)
1915 - 1918                Charles Gideon Murray              (b. 1877 - d. 1951)
1918 - 1927                Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston   (b. 1870 - d. 1960)
1928 - 1935                Charles William Doorly             (b. 1875 - d. 1942)
1935 - 1938                Edward William Baynes              (b. 1880 - d. 1962)
Jul 1938 - 1944            Arthur Alban Wright                (b. 1887 - d. 1967)
1944 - 1946                Edward Francis Twining             (b. 1899 - d. 1967)
1947 - 1953                John Montague Stow                 (b. 1911 - d. 1997)
1953 - 1958                John Kingsmill Robert Thorp        (b. 1912 - d. 1961)
Administrators
1958 - 1962                Julian Edward George Asquith,      (b. 1916)
                             Earl of Oxford and Asquith 
Apr 1962 - 1967            Gerald Jackson Bryan               (b. 1921)
Governors
1967 - Sep 1971            Frederick Joseph Clarke            (b. 1912 - d. 1980)
                             (from 19 Jul 1967, Sir Frederick Joseph Clarke) 
Sep 1971 -  5 Oct 1974     Ira Marcus Simmons                 (b. 1917 - d. 1974)
                             (from 11 Jun 1974, Sir Ira Marcus Simmons)
                             (acting to 1973)
1974 - 22 Feb 1979         Sir Allen Montgomery Lewis         (b. 1909 - d. 1993)
Queen¹ 
22 Feb 1979 -              the Queen of the United Kingdom
Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)
22 Feb 1979 - 19 Jun 1980  Sir Allen Montgomery Lewis         (s.a.)
                             (1st time) 
19 Jun 1980 - 13 Dec 1982  Boswell Williams
                             (acting to 16 Dec 1981)
13 Dec 1982 - 30 Apr 1987  Sir Allen Montgomery Lewis         (s.a.)
                             (2nd time) 
30 Apr 1987 - 10 Oct 1988  Vincent Frederick Floissac (acting)(b. 1928)
                             (1st time)
10 Oct 1988 - 31 May 1996  Stanislaus Anthony James           (b. 1919)
                             (from 10 Apr 1992, Sir Stanislaus Anthony James)
                             (acting to 22 Feb 1992)
 1 Jun 1996 - 31 Aug 1997  William George Mallet              (b. 1923) 
                             (from 22 Feb 1997, Sir William George Mallet) 
31 Aug 1997 - 17 Sep 1997  Sir Vincent Frederick Floissac     (s.a.)
                             (2nd time)(acting)
17 Sep 1997 -              Calliopa Pearlette Louisy (f)      (b. 1946)
                             (from 16 Jul 1999, Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy)

Chief ministers
 1 Jan 1960 - Apr 1964     George Frederick Lawrence Charles  (b. 1916 - d. 2004)  SLP
Apr 1964 -  1 Mar 1967     John George Melvin Compton         (b. 1926 - d. 2007)  UWP
Premier
 1 Mar 1967 - 22 Feb 1979  John George Melvin Compton         (s.a.)               UWP
Prime ministers
22 Feb 1979 -  2 Jul 1979  John George Melvin Compton         (s.a.)               UWP
                             (1st time)
 2 Jul 1979 -  4 May 1981  Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy    (b. 1916)            SLP
 4 May 1981 - 17 Jan 1982  Winston Francis Cenac              (b. 1925 - d. 2004)  SLP
17 Jan 1982 -  3 May 1982  Michael Pilgrim (interim)          (b. 1947)            LPP
 3 May 1982 -  2 Apr 1996  John George Melvin Compton         (s.a.)               UWP
                             (2nd time)
 2 Apr 1996 - 24 May 1997  Vaughan Allen Lewis                (b. 1940)            UWP
24 May 1997 - 15 Dec 2006  Kenny Davis Anthony                (b. 1951)            SLP
15 Dec 2006 -  7 Sep 2007  Sir John George Melvin Compton     (s.a.)               UWP
                             (3rd time)
 1 May 2007 -              Stephenson King                    (b. 1958)            UWP
                             (acting to 9 Sep 2007 [for Compton to 7 Sep 2007])

  ¹Full style from 1979: "By the Grace of God, Queen of Saint Lucia and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth."

Territorial Dispute: Joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea.

Party abbreviations: LPP = Labour Progressive Party (pro-Cuban); SLP = Saint Lucia Labour Party (social-democratic); UWP = United Workers Party (conservative)