Timeline St. Lucia
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Islands in the Lesser Antilles. St. Lucia's capital is Castries. It changed
hands between England and France 14 times. One of the Windward Islands.
(SFEC, 2/14/99, p.T8)(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A8)(NH, 3/05,
p.64)
1967
Mar 1, St. Lucia became a West Indies associated
state with John Compton as Premier. It gained full independence on Feb
22, 1979.
(www.stlucia1979.com/page3.htm)
1974 Peter Bird and Derek King
rowed 4,300 miles for 106 days east-to-west across the Atlantic from
Gibraltar to the Caribbean island of Santa Lucia. The wrote of their
trip in: "Small Boat Against the Sea." In 1996 he was lost at sea
during an attempted crossing of the Pacific.
(SFC, 6/6/96, C1)
1979 Feb 22, St. Lucia gained full
independence from Britain and Sir John Compton became the first prime
minister.
(PCh, 1992, p.1072)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(SFC, 3/22/99,
p.A10)
1979 Sir Arthur Lewis, an
economist from St. Lucia, won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
(Econ, 9/6/08, p.90)
1992 Oct 8, Derek Walcott
(b.1930), West Indies born poet (Saint Lucia), was named winner of the
Nobel Prize in literature.
(AP, 10/8/97)(Econ, 3/20/10, p.94)
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)
2000 Dec 31, In St. Lucia machete
wielding men stormed the Castries Cathedral, hacked at worshipers and
set them ablaze. One nun was killed and 12 people injured. Two suspects
identified themselves as Rastafarian foes of corruption in the Catholic
Church.
(SFC, 1/1/01, p.A12)
2004 Sep 13, In St. Lucia dozens
of homes were damaged from Hurricane Ivan. The government estimates
$2.5 million in damage to homes and infrastructure, plus $3.7 million
in damage to the banana industry, with 30 percent of the crop destroyed.
(AP, 9/14/04)
2006 Mar 7, St. Lucia expected to
open an aerial tramway across 1,200 acres of northern rain forest and
mountains.
(SSFC, 2/19/06, p.F2)
2007 Jan 9, St. Lucian lawmakers
made history in the Caribbean island when they selected two women to
lead Parliament.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 May 1, China lashed out at
the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia for restoring diplomatic relations
with Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as Chinese
territory.
(AP, 5/1/07)
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 Jan 15, Singing
schoolchildren welcomed Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to St. Lucia
for his first visit since the small Caribbean island shifted diplomatic
ties to Taipei instead of rival China.
(AP, 1/16/08)
2010 Sep 17, On the island of St.
Lucia a gunman walked into PM Stephenson King’s home-district office
and killed a man who was waiting to see the government leader.
(AP, 9/18/10)
2010 Oct 30, Hurricane Tomas, the
12th of the Atlantic season, hit a cluster of Caribbean islands
including St. Vincent and St. Lucia and moved toward Jamaica. 3 deaths
were reported on St. Vincent.
(SSFC, 10/31/10, p.A5)
2011 Mar 2, In St. Lucia three gay
men from Atlanta were beaten and robbed after masked bandits broke into
their mountain rental home in Soufriere. Police later arrested two
suspects in the assault and looked for three more.
(AP, 3/14/11)
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