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1493
Nov 3, Christopher Columbus discovered the Caribbee
Isles (Dominica) during his second expedition. He and his crew of 1,500
built the town of La Isabela on the northern coast of the Dominican
Republic. It was abandoned within 5 years due in part to poor relations
with the Taino Indians. This area was part of the chiefdom of Higuey.
(AM, 7/97,
p.54,60)(http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/v2.htm)
1720 Beginning in this year the
island’s administration shifted between the French and the British
until the early 19th century.
(SFEC, 2/15/98, p.T6)
1920-1929 Artist Stephan Haweis (d.1966) went to
Dominica. He made his home on Mount Joy near Soufriere. He painted in a
Gauguin-like style and inspired other Dominican artists in his wake.
(SFEC, 2/15/98, p.T7)
1954 Pierre Charles (d.2004),
later prime minister, was born in Grand Bay, Dominica.
(SFC, 1/8/04, p.A19)
1967 Mar 1, Dominica became a West
Indies associated state with Edward Oliver LeBlanc as premier. Full
independence was attained on Nov. 03, 1978.
(www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Countries/Dominica.htm)
1968 Jul 1, Dominica’s left-wing
government brought in the Seditious and Undesirable Publications Act to
suppress dissent. Eugenia Charles led the opposition to get it
withdrawn and was made the leader of the Dominica Free Party.
(Econ, 9/17/05,
p.90)(http://tinyurl.com/l5lh6m)
1978 Nov 3, Dominica gained
independence from Britain.
(PCh, 1992, p.1065)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)
1979 Aug 30, Hurricane David
devastated the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica as it began a rampage
through the Caribbean and up the eastern seaboard of the United States
that claimed some 1,100 lives.
(AP, 8/30/97)
1980-1995 Eugenia Charles (1919-2005) served as PM of
Dominica. She was the 1st female prime minister in the Caribbean region.
(SFC, 9/8/05, p.B7)
1983 May 10, Dominica PM Dame
Eugenia Charles chose to support Taiwan out of political conviction
(www.thedominican.net/articles/newsdesk6.htm).
(Econ, 4/10/04, p.29)
1983 Oct 25, Dominica PM Dame
Eugenia Charles stood next to US Pres. Ronald Reagan at the White House
as he announced the US invasion of Grenada.
(SFC, 1/8/04, p.A19)(SFC, 9/8/05, p.B7)
1997 Jun 18, It was reported that
Japan was paying 5 Caribbean nations extensive aid and investment in
order to gain support to block protections for endangered species.
Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Dominica were
all reported to have been bribed.
(SFC, 6/18/97, p.A8)
1998 Apr 20, The Goldman
Environmental Awards were presented to six winners in SF. The prizes
were increased to $100,000. Atherton Martin (52) won for his work
against a copper mine in Dominica.
(SFC, 4/20/98, p.A8)
1999 Dominica reported some 1,000
economic citizens, people who had paid about $50,000 for a legal
passport.
(SFC, 12/10/99, p.AA4)
2000 Jan 31, The United Workers
Party lost its majority in the Dominica House of Assembly and Roosevelt
Douglas "Rosie Douglas" (58) became the new prime minister following
Edison James.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A16)
2000 Mar 17, In Dominica it was
reported that Elizabeth Israel, the daughter of a freed slave, was
living at age 125.
(SFC, 3/17/00, p.A14)
2000 Dominica PM Roosevelt Douglas
died of a heart attack and Pierre Charles (1954-2004) was appointed to
replace him.
(SFC, 1/8/04, p.A19)
2003 Dominica slashed its budget
15% and introduced new taxes, which led to strikes.
(SFC, 1/8/04, p.A19)
2004 Jan 6, PM Pierre Charles (49)
of Dominica, who slashed public spending in a bid to help his island's
economy and was a critic of U.S. policy in the Caribbean, died of an
apparent heart attack.
(AP, 1/7/04)
2004 Jan 7, Dominica's main
political party chose Roosevelt Skerrit (31), the education minister,
as the next leader of this Caribbean country.
(AP, 1/8/04)
2004 Mar 29, The island of
Dominica switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, after the
communist state offered a $112 million aid package.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Apr 5, China promised $122
million to Pres. Skerritt in return for revoking Dominica’s recognition
of Taiwan.
(Econ, 4/10/04, p.29)
2004 Oct 29, Edward Oliver Leblanc
(81), former Dominica Premier, died. He was described by some as a
founding father of the Caribbean island in its transition to
independence.
(AP, 10/30/04)
2004 Dominica’s population
numbered about 71,000 inhabitants.
(WSJ, 1/7/04, p.A1)
2005 May 5, Dominica's governing
party won a narrow victory in parliamentary elections apparently
convincing voters of the need for an austerity program and a switch in
diplomatic ties from Taiwan to China.
(AP, 5/5/05)
2005 Jul 18, In a program to be
screened on ABC TV, the fisheries chief of the Solomon Islands in the
South Pacific says Japan poured money into the country in exchange for
its support over whaling and cheap access to tuna. Similar charges were
made by former officials from the tiny Caribbean nations of Dominica
and Grenada.
(AP, 7/18/05)
2005 Sep 6,
Eugenia Charles (b.1919), former PM of Dominica (1980-1995), died. She
invited Ronald Reagan to invade Grenada in 1983.
(SFC, 9/8/05, p.B7)(Econ, 9/17/05, p.90)
2005 Sep 6, Nine countries:
Antigua, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Dominica, Suriname, St. Kitts, St.
Vincent and the Dominican Republic, signed oil deals with Venezuela in
Jamaica. Cuba and Jamaica had previously signed. Chavez urged Caribbean
governments to consider Cuba-style socialism as an alternative to
capitalism.
(AP, 9/11/05)
2007 Aug 17, Hurricane Dean tore
through the eastern Caribbean islands of St. Lucia and Martinique,
ripping roofs from buildings, downing trees and knocking out power. 100
mph winds ruined the entire banana harvest on St. Lucia and Martinique
and battered the banana industry in Dominica.
(AP, 8/17/07)(AP, 8/18/07)
2008 May 9, Dominica legislators
balked at deciding who can marry whom. Chief Charles Williams, the
leader of the last remaining pre-Columbian tribe in the eastern
Caribbean, recently suggested outlawing marriage to outsiders to save a
dwindling indigenous population.
(AP, 5/9/08)
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