Caicos
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Caicos
Short for Caicos Islands, the bigger archipelago of the TCI, lying to the northwest.
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Africans from this ship may have been among the 189 liberated Africans whom the British colonists settled in the Turks and Caicos from 1833 to 1840.
As a result, there was a great deal of political turmoil surrounding the ownership of the Turks (and Caicos).
East Caicos (which is administered as part of South Caicos District) is uninhabited, while the only permanent inhabitants of West Caicos (administered as part of Providenciales District) are resort staff.
Around 1200, the Turks and Caicos Islands were resettled by Classical Taínos from Hispaniola.
For visitors who are curious about island history, Wade’s Green Plantation on North Caicos offers a window into the era of Loyalist plantations in Turks and Caicos.
According to the Turks and Caicos Sun, Governor Ric Todd has dismissed some local complaints that the new constitution gives him too much power.