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17-461: Gros Islet District , one of 10 first order subdivision ( districts , formerly quarters) of the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia which includes the island's northernmost point, Cap Point and the notable Cap Estate, where the renowned St. Lucia Golf and Country Club is located. Whilst the town of Gros Islet is an important administrative centre, Rodney Bay is the main financial center of
34-591: A Friday Night Street Party as its major tourist attraction. Also known as the jump-up, the Friday Night Street Party encompasses several blocks, which are informally cordoned off with the stalls of street vendors. Steamed fish, barbecue chicken and St. Lucia's own Piton beer can be purchased from these vendors. Locals and tourist both dance in a central cross section in the small streets to the sounds of calypso , zouk , reggae and R&B . The Rodney Bay area further south differs greatly from
51-603: The United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors. FIPS standards establish requirements for ensuring computer security and interoperability, and are intended for cases in which suitable industry standards do not already exist. AIR FIPS specifications are modified versions of standards
68-471: The French claimed title of Saint Lucia in 1744, commandant de Rougueville divided Saint Lucia into districts and parishes. Quarters were administrative districts for the control of settlors and slaves. The French Surveyor General of Saint Lucia, M. Raussaim, initially divided Saint Lucia into seven quarters. In 1844, Henry Breen describes how Saint Lucia was divided into two districts, the eastern district on
85-608: The French period in Saint Lucia (Sainte Lucie in French). The 2001 and 2010 Census of Saint Lucia refers to the first level administrative divisions as districts . The FIPS and ISO standards regularly called these divisions quarters or quartiers in French. The former district of Dauphin Quarter was merged into Gros Islet District and the former district of Praslin Quarter was merged into Micoud District . After
102-749: The Gros Islet electoral constituency. The town of Gros Islet lies north of Castries , the capital of Saint Lucia. Gros Islet is the newest town in Saint Lucia , having been promoted from a village to a town in 1985. It is the location of the Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium where Twenty20 Internationals , One Day Internationals and Test Cricket are played. Parts of the 2007 Cricket World Cup , 2010 ICC World Twenty20 and 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup have been played there. The town of Gros Islet features
119-557: The codes maintain the previous numerical system, particularly for states. In 2008, NIST withdrew the FIPS 55-3 database. This database included 5-digit numeric place codes for cities, towns, and villages, or other centers of population in the United States. The codes were assigned alphabetically to places within each state, and as a result changed frequently in order to maintain the alphabetical sorting. NIST replaced these codes with
136-693: The district. The Arawak and Carib artifacts found in Gros Islet District date back to around 1000 A.D. The pirate François Le Clerc, nicknamed Jambe de Bois because of his wooden leg, used Pigeon Island as a base to attack Spanish ships in the 1550s. Peg-Leg Le Clerc was originally from Normandy and the first European to settle Saint Lucia. Because of the good anchorage at Gros Islet harbor, early French and British sailing ships often anchored at this port city. The French established 47 plantations for producing sugar in Gros Islet by 1775. The Marquis de Bouille captured Gros Islet in 1793 before he
153-455: The districts. There are 17 constituencies in Saint Lucia that are represented in the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia . A study was done in 2014 to look into variations in census and boundaries and possible expansion of the number of constituencies. Additional bibliographic references: Federal Information Processing Standards The Federal Information Processing Standards ( FIPS ) of
170-525: The leeward side of Saint Lucia facing the Atlantic Ocean and the western district on the windward side facing the Caribbean Sea . It was further divided into eleven quarters or parishes, i.e. Castries, Anse Laraye, Soufriere, Choiseul, Laborie, Vieux Fort, Micoud, Praslin, Dennery, Dauphin, and Gros-ilet. Each quarter or parish had a town in the coastal bay within its territory that was named
187-841: The more permanent GNIS Feature ID, maintained by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names . The GNIS database is the official geographic names repository database for the United States, and is designated the only source of geographic names and locative attributes for use by the agencies of the Federal Government. FIPS 8-6 "Metropolitan Areas" and 9-1 "Congressional Districts of the U.S." were also withdrawn in 2008, to be replaced with INCITS standards 454 and 455, respectively. The U.S. Census Bureau used FIPS place codes database to identify legal and statistical entities for county subdivisions, places, and American Indian areas, Alaska Native areas, or Hawaiian home lands when they needed to present census data for these areas. In response to
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#1732772420472204-552: The public beaches being blocked by large construction projects. The historic Pigeon Island is a popular place for tourists because of it peacefulness and wildlife. A man-made causeway connects it to the mainland. The following sites of interest are in Gros Islet District: Quarters of Saint Lucia The island nation of Saint Lucia is divided into 10 districts (formerly called Quarters). The name Quarters or Quartiers originally came from
221-528: The same as the quarter. Breen further talks about stipendiary magistrates introduced during the period of the apprenticeship system. These magistrates were as follows: Still later the number of stipendiary magistrates was increased to five: The magistrates did not survive. However, the quarters or parishes did survive, as such, with some mergers and changes in the names. Since the 2001 Census of Saint Lucia there have been 10 districts in Saint Lucia. Saint Lucia electoral boundaries are based, generally, on
238-557: The small, makeshift housing littering most of the town of Gros Islet. Catering mostly to the tourism populace, the areas surrounding the marina contain shops, malls, restaurants and night clubs that fall on the higher end of the spectrum compared to other local enterprises. Land development costs in Rodney Bay are extremely high. The exclusive beach front properties have almost all been purchased by small and large hoteliers, and restaurateurs, frustrating locals who continually see access to
255-657: The technical communities use, such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The U.S. government has developed various FIPS specifications to standardize a number of topics including: Some FIPS standards are related to the security of data processing systems. Some of these include
272-730: The use of key escrow systems. Some examples of FIPS Codes for geographical areas include FIPS 10-4 for country codes or region codes and FIPS 5-2 for state codes . These codes were similar to or comparable with, but not the same as, ISO 3166 , or the NUTS standard of the European Union . In 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) withdrew several geographic FIPS code standards, including those for countries (FIPS 10-4), U.S. states (FIPS 5-2), and counties ( FIPS 6-4 ). These are to be replaced by ISO 3166 and INCITS standards 38 and 31, respectively. Some of
289-484: Was forced to retreat by George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney from his base on Pigeon Island. During World War II, 221 acres of land at Gros Islet were turned into a U.S. Naval Air Station with seaplanes. All that survives today are the cement ramps used by the plane to come on land. The Gros Islet District is an electoral constituency and has been represented since July 2021 in the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia by Kenson Casimir , Parliamentary Representative for
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