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His eldest son, Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet (1749–1815), was the Governor of Tobago from 1807-1815 as well as serving as a Member of Parliament. [12] Sir William purchased some of the best pieces of real estate on Antigua, St Vincent, and Tobago. [8]
Gwendolyn Moreen Peters was born on 3 October 1923 in Seatons Village, on the Island of Antigua in the Eastern Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. [1] She attended her basic educational studies in Antigua and trained under Caribbean pupil-teacher program to enable her to become a teacher.
News Pages Antigua, founded in the 2000s [2] Carib Arena, founded in the 2000s, short-lived [2] Antigua Sun and Sun Weekend, founded in 1997 by Allen Stanford; Caribbean Times, in Antigua and Barbuda, ceased to publish in January 2018. [2] [5] (There is a newspaper also called Caribbean Times that is published in New York City.)
The British Parliament gave the St. Clare estate a legacy award of £10,041 for freeing 62 slaves after slavery was abolished in 1833. Rowland Edward Williams received the prize. In the 1940s, Dr. Robert Raeburn built a dairy farm with Robert Hall at Smith's (#161) while serving as the island's top government vet.
The senior John Otto Baijer was baptized in St. John's in 1703 and went on to acquire Belmont, Otto's Estate (#16), Five Islands (#31), and Cooke's Estate (#26) as well as other properties. Afterwards, Daniel Burr Garling purchased Otto's and Belmont. Belmont got a £2,386 legacy award from the British Parliament for freeing 160 slaves.
The British Parliament awarded Otto's a legacy payment of £2,549 in 1833 for liberating 175 slaves. Langford Lovell, who at the time owned the estate, was the lone recipient of the prize. Another extremely powerful earthquake struck Antigua in 1833 between eight and nine in the evening.
At the time of Spanish contact, the Kalinago were one of the dominant groups in the Caribbean (the name of which is derived from "Carib", as the Kalinago were once called). They lived throughout north-eastern South America, Trinidad and Tobago , Barbados , the Windward Islands , Dominica , and possibly the southern Leeward Islands .
John William Ashe (20 August 1954 – 22 June 2016) was an Antiguan diplomat and politician. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly at its 68th session, which ran September 2013 to September 2014. [1]