Saint Lucia

1996George Mallet is appointed St. Lucia’s Governor-general.

1994-1995. Years 1994 and 1995 were shaded by protests staged by banana-plantation workers –the country’s major export item- and by port workers calling for higher wages.

1992 St. Kitts, Antigua, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada and Monserrat agree on opening a joint embassy in Brussels to the European Economic Community.

1990The bickering between Saint Lucia and the Dominican Republic over banana exports to the United Kingdom, a traditional and main market staple for the former, is finally worked out.

1982. After successive political crises, The Workers United Party won back-to-back elections in 1982 and 1987. Compton climbed back on the saddle with a conservative agenda that fostered a market economy and proposing a policy of economic adjustment recommended by the International Monetary Fund.

1982. Increase of exports and tourism benefits failed to find a way out to the economic crisis that spread into the 1990s.

1967. In 1967, the island acquired an ampler self-governing status and passed a new constitution within the framework of the West Indies Federate States. Rifts led to separate negotiations for its independence.

1959. During the colonial rule, St. Lucia integrated the administration of the Leeward Islands. From 1959 to 1962, it belonged to the West Indies Federate States and had a governor of its own.