Saint Lucia
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1781-1783, 1794-1795, 1796-1802,
1803-1875
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1875 - 16 Aug 1939
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26 Oct 1937 - 16 Aug 1939 (unofficial)
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16 Aug 1939 - 1 Mar 1967
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1 Mar 1967 - 22 Feb 1979
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22 Feb 1979 - 22 Feb 2002
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Adopted 22 Feb 2002
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Map
of St. Lucia
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Hear
National Anthem "Sons and Daughters of St. Lucia"
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Text
of National Anthem Adopted 1979
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Constitution (22 Feb 1979)
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Capital: Castries
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Currency: East Caribbean Dollar (XCD)
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National Holiday: 22 Feb (1979) Independence Day
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Population: 170,649 (2007)
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GDP: $866 million (2002)
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Exports: $82 million (2004) Imports: $410 million (2004)
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Ethnic groups: black 50%, mulatto 44%, East
Indian 3%, white 1%,other 2% (2000)
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Total Police Force and Coast Guard: 300 (2000) Merchant marine: None (2006)
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Religions: Roman Catholic 67.5%, Protestant
22% (of which Seventh Day Adventist 8.5%, Pentecostal 5.7%, Anglican
2%, Evangelical 2%, other Christian 5.1%), Rastafarian 2.1%, non-religious 4.5%, other/none 3.9% (2001)
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Organizations/Treaties: ACP, 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 |
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Saint Lucia
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Chronology
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13 Dec 1502
Discovered by Christopher Columbus and claimed
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for Spain, named Isla de Santa Lucia.
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1605 (one month)
Attempted English settlement.
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1639 - 1640
Attempted English settlement.
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Jun 1650
French colony (Sainte Lucie).
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1664 - 1667
English occupation.
- 1667 - 1674
Administered by the Compagnie des Indies
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Occidentales.
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1674
French crown colony.
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1723 - 1743
Neutral territory (agreed by Britain and France).
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1743
French colony (Sainte Lucie).
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1748 - 1756
Neutral territory (de jure agreed by Britain and
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France); not evacuated and remains de facto
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French.
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1756
French colony (Sainte Lucie).
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25 Feb 1762 - 10 Feb 1763 British occupation.
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1781 - 3 Sep 1783
British occupation.
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1794 - Jun 1795
British occupation.
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May 1796 - 27 Mar 1802 British occupation.
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25 Oct 1797 - 19 Apr 1801 Nominally organized as Lucie
département
of
France
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(Saint Lucia and Tobago; not effected due to
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British occupation).
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1802
Restored to France.
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21 Jun 1803
British colony (Saint Lucia).
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30 May 1814
British possession confirmed.
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1838
British crown colony.
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1838 - 1 Jan 1960
Part of the Windward Islands colony (see Grenada).
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3 Jan 1958 - 31 May 1962 Part of the Federation of the
West Indies
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(see Trinidad and Tobago).
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27 Feb 1967
Associated state
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22 Feb 1979
Independence from Britain (St. Lucia).
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Governors
1605
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1639 - 1640
Judlee
2 Sep 1650 - 1651
Du Parquet
(d. 1657)
1651 - 1654
Louis de Kerengoan, sieur
(d. 1654)
de Rosselan
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
Bonnard
1664 - 1666
Thomas Warner, Jr.
1666 - 1667
Crook
1667 - 1722
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Dec 1722 - Jan 1723 Nathaniel
Wring (or Uring)
1723 - 1744
None
Commandants
1744 - 1748
de Longueville (1st time)
(d. 1761)
1755 - 1761
de Longueville (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Governors
25 Feb 1762 - 10 Feb 1763 George Brydges Rodney
(b. 1718 - d. 1792)
10 Feb 1763 - 1764
Pierre Lucien de La Chapelle
de Jumilhac
1764 - 1771
Claude Anne de Micoud
1771 - 1772
Claude Anne Gui de Micoud
(1st time)
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 - 1778
Marc Étienne de Joubert
1778 - 1781
Claude Anne Gui de Micoud
(2nd time)
1781 - 1783
Arthur St. Leger
1784 - 1789
Jean Zénon André de Véron de
Laborie
1789 - 1793
Jean Joseph de Gimat
1793 - 1794
Nicolas Xavier de Ricard
1794 - 1795
Sir Charles Gordon
(b. 1756 - d. 1835)
1795 - Jun 1795
James Stewart
Jun 1795 - May 1796 Goyrand
-Commissioner
May 1796 - 1797
John Moore
(b. 1761 - d. 1809)
1797 - 1798
James Durmmond
May 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
1803 - 1807
Robert Brereton
1807 - 1814
Alexander Wood
1814 - 1815
Francis Delaval
1815 - 1816
Edward Stehelin
1816
Robert Douglas
1816 - 1817
Richard Augustus Seymour
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 1968, Sir Frederick Joseph Clarke)
Sep 1971 - 5 Oct 1974 Ira Marcus
Simmons (b.
1917 - d. 1974)
(from 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 - 1 Jun 1996 Stanislaus Anthony James
(b. 1919)
(from 1992, Sir Stanislaus A. James)
(acting to 22 Feb 1992)
1 Jun 1996 - 17 Sep 1997 William George Mallet
(b. 1923)
(from 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 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])
¹The style of the ruler: "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)
©2000 Ben Cahoon
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