Eugenia Charles, former prime minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica, died last month, age 86.* Eugenia Charles Dame Eugenia Charles, DBE (May 15 1919 – September 6, 2005) was the Prime Minister of Dominica from July 21 1980 until June 14 1995. She was the first female prime minister in the Caribbean, and the first woman elected in her own right as head of government in North America. , former prime minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica, died last month, age 86. In the sun/rain/sun of the lesser Antilles Lesser Antilles: see West Indies. , history can seem as if it's passing by: "There the past is an infinite Sunday," as Derek Walcott Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. put it. History visited big-time in 1979 when the Castroite Maurice Bishop took over Grenada in a coup (just one of those Carter-era debacles). In October 1983 Bishop was deposed by rivals who were even further left, and the United States finally acted. Prime Minister Charles stood with Ronald Reagan when he announced the American liberation, and backed it wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed adj. Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval. whole . She was the face, sharp and well-spoken, of Caribbean common sense. The freedom of Grenada, Dominica, and their neighbors justifies her principles and her guts. R.I.P. |
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