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2 unusual facts about Mon Repos, Saint Lucia


Garey Mathurin

Garey Earl Mathurin (born 23 September 1983 in Mon Repos, Saint Lucia) is a cricketer who plays for the West Indies at international level and for the Windward Islands domestically.

Zepherinus Joseph

Zepherinus Joseph (born 13 August 1975, in Mon Repos, Saint Lucia) is a Saint Lucian athlete, specialising in middle and long distance events.


Antoine Duss

He collected botanical specimens mainly on Guadeloupe and its dependencies and Martinique, but made also collecting trips to Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, and Saint Lucia.

Catherine L. Malone

From November of 1996 to present she works as a field research assistant in various Caribbean nations, such as Dominican Republic, Montserrat, St. Eustatius, and Saba, St. Lucia.

Dennery River

The Dennery River is the river on the southern end of the fishing village of Dennery on the island of Saint Lucia.

Ezechiel Joseph

Ezechiel Joseph is a Saint Lucian politician who represented the constituency of Babonneau for the United Workers Party from 2006 to 2011.

George Charles

In the 1951 General Elections, the first held under universal adult suffrage, the St. Lucia Labour Party under his leadership won five of the eight seats against the middle class-oriented Peoples Progressive Party.

Sir George Frederick Lawrence Charles (7 June 1916 – 26 June 2004) is a former trade unionist, politician, founder of the Saint Lucia Labour Party and Chief Minister of Saint Lucia (1 January 1960 – April 1964).

Harold Dalson

Harold Dalson is a Saint Lucian politician who represents the constituency of Soufrière for the Saint Lucia Labour Party.

Hosay

In Port-of-Spain (St. James) the police did not interfere, but in Mon Repos, San Fernando, on Thursday, October 30, 1884, buckshot was fired into the crowds of women, children and men.

John Ronald Brown

Brown continued to practice medicine outside of California, but was successively barred from practicing in Hawaii, Alaska and the island of Saint Lucia.

Julian Hunte

Sir Julian Robert Hunte, KCMG, CSL, OBE (born 14 March 1940 in Castries) was the foreign minister of Saint Lucia from April 2001 to 26 October 2004, when he was succeeded by Petrus Compton.

Keith Mondesir

He has been a United Workers Party member of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia and a member of the Saint Lucian cabinet since 2006, serving in the administrations of John Compton and Stephenson King.

Lenard Montoute

Born June 30, 1962, Lenard Spider Montoute is a Saint Lucian politician who represents the constituency of Gros Islet for the United Workers Party (UWP).

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

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Mon Repos, Corfu

The villa was built as a summer residence for the English Commissioner Thomas Maitland, and his Greek spouse, Corfiot Nina Palatianou, in 1828–1831, although they had to vacate the villa soon afterwards when Maitland was sent to serve in India.

Neville Cenac

John Compton, the serving prime minister and a member of the governing United Workers Party, had taken steps to have Williams unseated.

Palace of St. Michael and St. George

Up to 1967, the Greek king occasionally used the palace on state occasions while in residence at his nearby villa, Mon Repos.

Peacebuilding Commission

Annan announced the membership of the 16-member Panel in a letter, dated November 3, 2003, addressed to the President of the General Assembly, Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia).

Pericles A. Sakellarios

He remodeled the Royal palace of Tatoi, Royal palace of Psychiko and Mon Repos in Corfu.

Peter Goldring

A week after the passage of Hurricane Ivan over Grenada, Goldring visited the islands of Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, and Grenada, touring much of the destruction left on Grenada.

Piaye

Piaye is a community on the island of Saint Lucia; it is located on the southern coast, near Balembouche and Bongaloin the constituency of Choiseul, and shares its name with a nearby river.

Rameau Poleon

Joseph "Rameau" Poleon, also known as "Papa Kilte", is a folk fiddler born in Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia.

Roseau, Saint Lucia

Roseau is a town on the island of Saint Lucia; it is located on the western side of the island, below Marigot.

Saint Lucia

Darren Sammy became the first Saint Lucian to represent the West Indies on his debut in 2007, and since 2010 has captained the side.

Saint Lucia boasts the highest ratio of Nobel laureates produced with respect to the total population of any sovereign country in the world.

Each May since 1991, Saint Lucia has hosted an internationally renowned Jazz Festival.

Saint Lucia National Trust

The Trust manages a number of different types of areas, including national landmarks (of which there is currently one: Pigeon Island National Landmark), historic sites (Morne Fortune), nature reserves (Maria Islands Nature Reserve, Anse La Liberte) and environmental protection areas (Pointe Sable Environmental Protection Area).

Saint Lucia–United States relations

The Peace Corps, whose Eastern Caribbean regional headquarters is located in St. Lucia, has 22 volunteers in St. Lucia, working primarily in business development, education, and health.

Cruise ship arrivals in 2005 were down by 18% over 2004, while the number of stay-over visitors increased slightly in the same period.

Sulfur Springs

Sulfur Springs is a popular tourist attraction found in Soufrière, Saint Lucia.


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