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Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands,the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about 16 km (10 mi) long and 11 km (7 mi) wide,with roughly 40 km (25 mi) of coastline. It is nicknamed "The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean" both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish ancestry of many of its inhabitants. Montserrat is the only non-fully sovereign full member of the Caribbean Community and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.
This is demography of the population of Montserrat including population density,ethnicity,education level,health of the populace,economic status,religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Politics of Montserrat takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency,whereby the Premier is the head of government,and of a multi-party system. Montserrat is an internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes Montserrat on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Legislative Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Military defence is the responsibility of the United Kingdom.
John Alfred Osborne was a chief minister of Montserrat.
The Soufrière Hills are an active,complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. After a long period of dormancy,the Soufrière Hills volcano became active in 1995 and continued to erupt through 2010. Its last eruption was in 2013. Its eruptions have rendered more than half of Montserrat uninhabitable,destroying the capital city,Plymouth,and causing widespread evacuations:about two-thirds of the population have left the island. Chances Peak in the Soufrière Hills was the highest summit on Montserrat until the mid-1990s,but it has since been eclipsed by various rising and falling volcanic domes during the recent volcanic activity.
Elections in Montserrat take place within the framework of a multi-party democracy and a parliamentary system. The Legislative Assembly is directly elected,and a Chief Minister is selected by the party or coalition with the most seats in the Assembly.
The coat of arms of Montserrat consists of an escutcheon (shield) charged with a woman in a green dress holding a golden harp and a black cross. In use since at least 1909,it has been the official coat of arms of the Caribbean island of Montserrat since the island became a British Crown colony in 1962. The escutcheon is featured on the flag of the territory.
Bertrand Osborne was a British politician from Montserrat. He served as the territory's Chief Minister from 13 November 1996 to 22 August 1997. He resigned from his post amid demonstrations over his dealings with the British government in the wake of the island nation being ravaged by a volcano eruption.
Reuben Theodore Meade is a retired politician from Montserrat who served as the island's first Premier between 2010 and 2014. He previously served as Chief Minister between 1991 and 1996 and 2009 to 2010. A member of the Movement for Change and Prosperity (MCAP),he previously led the now-defunct National Progressive Party.
The Legislative Council was the unicameral legislature of Montserrat from 1951 to 2011.
General elections were held in Montserrat on 2 April 2001. The result was a victory for the New People's Liberation Movement (NLPM),which won seven of the nine seats in the Legislative Council. NLPM leader John Osborne became Chief Minister.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Montserrat:
Donaldson Romeo is a politician from Montserrat. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Montserrat and served as the island's Premier from September 2014 until November 2019.
The Movement for National Reconstruction (MNR) was a political party in Montserrat led by Bertrand Osborne.
Sir Howard Archibald Fergus was a Montserratian author and historian. He was born at Long Ground in Montserrat. He attended Bethel Primary School,Montserrat Secondary School,Erdiston Teachers College in Barbados,the University College of the West Indies (London),the Universities of Bristol and Manchester,and finally the University of the West Indies (UWI),earning a PhD in 1978. He retired from the University in 2004 as Professor of Eastern Caribbean Studies.
Shirley Osborne is a politician in Montserrat. She was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Montserrat between September 2014 and October 2019. She is the daughter of the late John Osborne,a former Chief Minister of Montserrat.
Mary Rose Tuitt was an educator and politician from the island of Montserrat,a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. She was the first woman to serve as a government minister in that country.
Ellen Dolly Peters,BEM was an Afro-Montserratian teacher and trade unionist. Outspoken in her activism for improved conditions for workers,she was instrumental in the rise of William Bramble's political career and earned the title "king maker". For her contributions to labor,she was awarded the British Empire Medal and was awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice for her teaching and service to the Catholic Church.
Yvonne Weekes is a British-born Montserratian writer,theater director,and educator. She was Montserrat's first director of culture before being forced to move to Barbados during the eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano in the 1990s. Her work deals with issues of displacement and isolation due to environmental and cultural forces beyond our control.
Margaret (Annie) Dyer-Howe was a Montserratian politician and businesswoman,who was the second woman to be appointed as a government minister in the Legislative Assembly of Montserrat. She held a number of ministries during her two periods as an elected representative,including as Minister for Education and Social Affairs,Minister for Trade,Agriculture,Lands,Housing and the Environment and Minister of Finance. She also co-founded the Montserrat Labour Party.
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- ↑ Montserrat Legislative Assembly Parliamentary Data 1952-2019 (PDF). Brades: Legislative Assembly of Montserrat. 2019. p. 8.
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