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Dominica: Caribbean Centre
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Dominica is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) issues a common currency (the East Caribbean dollar) to all eight members of the ECCU. The ECCB ... manages monetary policy, and regulates and supervises commercial banking activities in its member countries.
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Language: The state language of Dominica is English. It is spoken by almost all inhabitants. There is ... a local Creole dialect - French patois, which is based on French with the adoptions from the languages of Caribbean Indians and West-African syntax. Now it is used only in remote villages and in the speech of elderly inhabitants.
ROSEAU, Dominica: Outgoing United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Mary Kramer, has congratulated the Government and people of Dominica for “putting their financial house in order”. The US Ambassador made the comments as she concluded her final visit to Dominica. read more..
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The former indigenous people of Dominica, the Arawak people, were expelled or exterminated by Caribs in the fourteenth century. The Arawaks had been guided from the waters of the Orinoco River to Dominica and other islands of the Caribbean by the South Equatorial Current. These descendants of the early Tainos were overthrown by the Kalinago tribe of the Caribs.
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Nicknamed the "Nature Island," Dominica stands out from its Caribbean neighbors. Steep mountainsides rise sharply from the coast, blanketed by rain forests and criss-crossed by 365 rivers. Elevations range from sea level to nearly 5,000 feet, creating diverse habitats including swamps, montane elfin forests with numerous hot springs and tropical rain forests.
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With a population of 75,000, Dominica lies in the eastern Caribbean, between Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south. The Caribs, the indigenous people of the Caribbean whose numbers have dwindled to 3,000, live as a community on the northeast of the island, where the art of traditional basketry is still practiced.
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