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- 1 2 3 4 5 "A former Speaker of the House of Assembly to get official funeral". Dominica News Online. 1 August 2019.
- ↑ Andre, Irving W.; Christian, Gabriel J. (1992). "In Search of Eden: Dominica, the Travails of a Caribbean Mini-state". Pond Casse Press.
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