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There is a community of Caribs on the east coast. The tourist industry is small, and farming is the principal industry, heavily dependent on the banana, which is very vulnerable to weather conditions. In 1989 the island and its residents suffered greatly from Hurricane Hugo, but have now recovered. Much effort in the last five years has made Dominica into one of the most active promoters of tourism in the Caribbean. As such, what hotels and restaurants may lack in efficiency is made up by the people's friendly, generous nature.</div> <bR> <div> English is the official language, but a local French patois, or Creole, is widely spoken.</div> <div> Dominica cannot be reached directly by air from the United States, and travelers must use such island gateways as Antigua, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten/Saint-Martin, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, and Barbados. From those islands, passengers usually switch to a smaller plane like those with American Eagle, Delta, Air Guadeloupe, Leeward Island Air Transport (LIAT), or Winward Islands Airways (Winair), all of which fly into Dominica. There are two small airports on the island: Melville Hall, on the island's east coast, is 24 miles northeast from Roseau and 13 miles east of Canefield; Canefield Airport is about 3 miles from Roseau. There is an EC$30 flight departure tax.</div> <bR> <div> Taxis and buses are inexpensive and plentiful. Car rentals are available, but driving is on the left and the roads are narrow and twisting, often with a steep drop on one side and a steep rain gutter on the other.</div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="14900c00.jpg" border=0 width="1280" height="960" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="637" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="341"><div> <U>De </U></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="279"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="279" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 WIDTH="7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="7" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="621"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="621" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="629"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="629" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="341"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="341" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=2 WIDTH="287"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="287" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="341"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="341" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN=2 WIDTH="287"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="287" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" >D</FONT>ominica's Grand Old Lady. Lucien Dasilva was always convinced that Elizabeth <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#CC0000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http_/_www.goecities.com/amazinglydominica_centinarians/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http//:www.goecities.com/amazinglydomini"><U>"Pampo"</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BF00BF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Israel was a "very special lady". <IMG SRC="1618eb80.gif" border=0 width="142" height="184" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Not only because she was a loving, caring and kind neighbour but there was something about her age that aroused Dasilva's curiosity and pushed her into research that eventually revealed that a Dominican is the oldest woman alive today. </div> <bR> <div> Asilva's research, which lasted about three years, took her to the Catholic Church archives, where she paged through volume of baptism registers going back more than one hundred years ago.  In her search, she found the name of Israel's godmother, Louisia Frager, and confirmed that Elizabeth Israel was born on January 27, 1875. </div> <bR> <div> The confirmation of her age should now put her into the Guinness Book of World records, which still list 119 year old Sarah Clark Knauss, a former Pennsylvania seamstress, as the oldest woman alive. </div> <div> Before Dasilva's discovery, almost the entire Glanvillia village believed Pampo Israel was much older than 124 years. </div> <bR> <div> Seventy-two-year-old Victoria Remy remembered Pampo as a grown lady when she was growing up. </div> <div> "She knew when my grandmother brought my mother to Dominica…my mother died at 84 and I never knew my grandmother", said Remy. Eighty-one-year-old Benjamin Amos knew "Pampo" when he was a boy living at Picard<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Estate<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" >. </FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="08e967a0.gif" border=0 width="150" height="122" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Dominica is unique for many reasons, but none more so than for its indigenous people. For Dominica can boast that it has the only remaining tribe of Carib Indians in the Caribbean. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0a72c4a0.gif" border=0 width="300" height="330" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Dominica is home to about 3,000 Carib Indians, descendants of the original inhabitants of the island, who live in the Carib Territory.  It was established in 1903 consisting of about 3,700 acres of land and owned exclusively by the Carib Indians.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Interesting Sites"><U><Previous page</U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#3333FF" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT>  <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Travel Tips"><U>next page></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>