Miss Charles had raised the spectre of Cuban infiltration ... rather vulgar (Lady Thatcher swigging a large whisky, Dame Eugenia gnawing on a stick of sugar cane). Both made their opinions ...

Delivering the annual Dame Eugenia Charles Memorial Lecture here on Monday night, Gonsalves, one of the region’s longest serving head of government, spoke on the topic “Our Caribbean ...

Working for the US Centre has been everything I wished it to be and more For the past academic year, I have been assisting Dr Imaobong Umoren in conducting her research on Dame Eugenia Charles, the ...

ROSEAU, Dominica — Former Prime Minister Dame Eugenia Charles, who developed a reputation so tough that she was known as the “Iron Lady of the Caribbean,” died Tuesday. She was 86.

Eugenia Charles, known as "The Iron Lady of the Caribbean", fought for the independence of the former British colony of Dominica and became the Caribbean's first woman prime minister in 1980.

Dame Eugenia Charles, the former Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica who died on Tuesday aged 86, led her island nation for 15 years, during which she became known as the "Iron Lady of ...