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Para wrote:
>>The Turks & Caicos Islands have a pretty interesting history, I've heard.
Just talk in the [at that time - the only] hotel on Grand Turk
about 10/12 years ago about some Freemasons who came over from Miami
and/or other places in Florida to build something or other.<<
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That was to be the next island I looked at. It has been used mostly as a
way station for smuggling of slaves and now drugs. For this reason, it is
also one of the new havens for money laundering and hiding assets from U.S.
government.
Linda Minor
http://www.sundialvillas.com/history.html
The Islands were originally inhabited in 750 AD by the Tainos people,
later renamed the Lucayans. Middle Caicos had the largest and most elaborate
Lucayan settlement in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands (6,000
persons). Thousands of artifacts have been found on the Island.
Columbus' first land fall was Grand Turk in 1492. There he encountered
people who farmed, fished and owned no weapons of war. By the year 1540
there was not a single Lucayan person left. These peoples, known as The
Peaceful Ones, were annihilated by battles with the cannibalistic Caribs
from the north, slaves taken to work in mines in Hispanola and disease
brought by the Spanish.
Over the next 100 years there were no settlers, but pirates used the Islands
as hideaways and resting stops. 1630 saw Bermudans and Europeans traveling
to the islands. Claimed by the Spanish, the French and finally the English,
the Islands are today a British Protectorate.
British Empire Loyalists started coming from the American Colonies in 1784.
Using land grants, they established slave run plantations harvesting sugar
cane, cotton and sisal. Blockades by the Americans in 1812 forced these land
owners to seek refuge on other British islands. Homes and slaves were
abandoned. Many families now living in the Caicos can trace their ancestry
back to these times.
The people in the settlement of Bambarra on Middle Caicos are believed to be
direct descendants from the Village of Bombarra located on the Slave Trail
in West Africa. A Spanish slaver shipwrecked off the Middle Caicos coast in
1842. The survivors established a village named after their home in Africa.
Today, Provodenciales (Provo) is the main island of development. The 15,000
West Indian people living their make up more than half the population of
Turks and Caicos. Middle Caicos at present has less than 300 persons living
on the Island. Cockburn, Grand Turk is the Capital and the seat of
Government.
The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British protectorate. They are governed
by an appointed Governor and a Chief Minister who heads an elected
Legislative Council. The council is comprised of thirteen representatives
elected every four years, three appointed members, and a speaker. Tourism,
land development, as well as offshore banking and financial services are the
basis of today's economy.
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