Laborie is a Quarter

Quarters of Saint Lucia

||The island of Saint Lucia is divided into 11 quarters:# Anse la Raye# Castries# Choiseul# Dauphin# Dennery# Gros Islet# Laborie# Micoud# Praslin# Soufrière# Vieux Fort-District statistics:...

 – an administrative division inherited from the former French colonial regime (from French: quartiers) – on the Caribbean

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

 island-nation of Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 and has an...

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According to the 2002 census, the population of the Quarter was 7,414 people.http://www.stats.gov.lc/pop22.htm The village of Laborie is located about 27 km south of Castries

Castries

Castries , population 10,634, aggl. 37,963 , is the capital city of Saint Lucia, a country in the Caribbean. The district with the same name had a population of 61,341 in 2001-05-22, and stretches over an area of ....

, the nation's capital.

History

The first inhabitants of the Laborie general area, migrating from South America around 1000 a.c., were probably the Arawak Amerindians.Laborie a south western fishing village named after the french governor Baron De Laborie was once a tutles habitat. French colonials were probably the first to settle what is now the village of Laborie, in the early 18th century.

Notable people

Prominent Laborians include the second Prime Minister – and first being elected to the position following independence – of St. Lucia, Sir Allan Louisy

Allan Louisy

Sir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy, KCMG, PC was the second prime minister of independent St Lucia, following Sir John Compton in office...

; the 7th Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Dr. Kenny Anthony

Kenny Anthony

Kenny Davis Anthony is a Saint Lucian politician who was the fifth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006. As leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party, he was Leader of the Opposition from 2006 to 2011 and returned to office as Prime Minister on 30 November 2011 following the 2011...

; and the current Governor General, Dame Pearlette Louisy

Pearlette Louisy

Dame Pearlette Louisy, GCMG is the Governor-General of Saint Lucia. She is the first woman to hold this office, which she was sworn into on 19 September 1997....

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Adjacent quarters

External links

• Laborie Community Portal