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A British colony comprised
of St. Vincent Island and the N. Grenadines in the S. Windward
Islands
in the SE West Indies, part of the Lesser Antilles chain. Kingstown
is
the capital.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines)
Legend held that indigenous Arawak-speaking peoples of Northern
Brazil
arrived on the island of St. Vincent long before the Europeans. They
later took in ship wrecked Africans.
(SFC, 7/25/07, p.E1)
1635
European ships carrying African slaves to the
West Indies sank off the coast of St. Vincent. The surviving salves
escaped and gradually intermarried with the island’s Carib Indian
natives.
(SFEC, 5/4/97, p.T11)
1779 Jun 18, French fleet
occupied St Vincent.
(MC, 6/18/02)
1793 The British took over the
island of St. Vincent and a series of wars ensued against the black
Caribs.
(SFC, 7/25/07, p.E2)
1795 The British won a battle
against the local Garifuna.
(SFEC, 5/4/97, p.T11)
1797 Some 5,000 black Carib
Indians, also known as Garifuna or Garinagu, were exiled from St.
Vincent Island to Roatan Island off of Honduras. The Garifuna
defined themselves not by country or territory but by language and
culture.
(SFEC, 5/4/97, p.T11)(SFC, 4/27/98, p.A6)
1872 A stone prison for 90
inmates was built in Kingstown.
(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A8)
1902 The Soufriere volcano
erupted on St. Vincent and 1,680 people were killed.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A14)
1958 Colin Tennant (1926-2010),
Scottish noble and later Lord Glenconner, acquired the island of
Mustique, part of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and turned it into
a luxury playground for his friends.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Tennant,_3rd_Baron_Glenconner)(Econ,
9/11/10, p.103)
1979 St. Vincent and the
Grenadines gained independence from Britain.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)
1996 Oct 6, Jerome “Jolly”
Joseph, a taxi boat driver in Bequia, was killed. An American
couple, James and Penny Fletcher from West Virginia, were accused of
the murder.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.C1)
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)
1997 Aug 8, James and Penny
Fletcher were acquitted of the murder of Jerome Joseph after 9
months of incarceration.
(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A8)
1998 Jun 15, The New Democratic
Party of Prime Minister Sir James Mitchell won 8 of 15 seats in the
legislature. The opposition ULP protested the results.
(SFC, 6/17/98, p.C2)
2001 UNESCO proclaimed the
Garifuna language, music and dance Masterpieces of the Oral and
Intangible heritage of Humanity.
(SFC, 7/25/07, p.E2)
2002 Sep 24, Tropical Storm
Lili unleashed a mudslide that buried a woman and three of her
children in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(AP, 9/25/02)
2002 Sep 29, Hurricane
Lili killed 3 people in Jamaica and headed for Cuba.
(AP, 10/1/02)
2003 May 23, The Democratic
Party in the Dutch Caribbean territory of St. Maarten won
legislative elections, winning support for its platform of working
with the regional government before seeking independence from the
Netherlands.
(AP, 5/24/03)
2004 Sep 13, In St. Vincent and
the Grenadines about 50 homes and buildings were damaged from
Hurricane Ivan. The government estimates 20 percent of the banana
crop was destroyed.
(AP, 9/14/04)
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)
2005 Nov 14, Mudslides killed
two fishermen and destroyed seven homes as heavy rains brought by a
tropical depression overflowed river banks and made roads impassable
in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
(AP, 11/15/05)
2006 Dec 12, In St. Vincent
Sean Samuel beheaded Stacy Wilson, a 21-year-old woman, in front of
horrified onlookers at a bus terminal in Kingstown.
(AP, 12/13/06)
2008 Aug, St. Vincent and Iran
established ties after PM Gonsalves visited Iran for a summit of the
Nonaligned Movement, an organization of 120 developing nations. St.
Vincent later announced that it would receive US$7 million in aid
from Iran. A portion of that will go toward construction of a US$200
million international airport.
(AP, 9/16/08)
2009 Feb 8, Sigurdur Helgason
(b.1921), former Icelandic airline CEO (1974-1984), died on the
Caribbean private island of Mustique. He pioneered cheap flights
that carried legions of backpackers between Europe and the United
States in the 1960s and '70s.
(AP, 2/21/09)
2009 Mar 26, Regulators in St.
Vincent and the Grenadines took control of an island bank linked to
an alleged Ponzi scheme. A complaint alleged that William Wise of
Raleigh, NC, and Kristi Hoegel of Napa, Ca., orchestrated the scheme
through Millennium Bank and its Geneva-based parent United Trust of
Switzerland SA, as well as US affiliates of both organizations.
(SFC, 3/28/09, p.A2)(http://tinyurl.com/cqedzr)
2009 Nov 25, Voters in St.
Vincent and the Grenadines rejected a referendum on whether or not
to break their ties with Britain's monarchy, even as Queen Elizabeth
II is made a rare visit to the region.
(AP, 11/25/09)(AP, 11/26/09)
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)
2010 Dec 13, St. Vincent and
the Grenadines PM Ralph Gonsalves, who has led the Caribbean nation
into an alliance with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, won a narrow victory
in parliamentary elections to keep his party in power for another
five years.
(AP, 12/13/10)
2012 Jul 5, In Panama the
International Whaling Commission rejected a request from Denmark for
a whaling quota for indigenous groups in Greenland. Two days earlier
it approved the renewal of bowhead whale quotas for indigenous
subsistence whaling in Alaska and Russia and for St. Vincent and the
Grenadines in the Caribbean. The United States says it doesn't
support a South Korean plan to restart whale hunting for purportedly
scientific purposes.
(AP, 7/6/12)
2013 Sep 16, Representatives
from 15 Caribbean nations gathered in St. Vincent to seek slavery
reparations from Britain, France and the Netherlands.
(SFC, 9/17/13, p.A2)
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