Salisbury

Salisbury is a town in the Saint Joseph Parish of Dominica. Salisbury is also known as Baroui in the local Creole language. The town has a population of less than 3,000 people.

The town of Salisbury used to be a village of thatched-roof huts with the local Catholic Church constructed in 1929 being the only major building in the village.

But the village grew from a village where bananas were cultivated and sold and marketed to other parts of Dominica into a major town with its own parliamentary representative.

Dominica actually became an independent nation after the first Dominican Premier, Patrick Roland John, signed the Salisbury Declaration on August 26, 1976.

Salisbury has a number of tourist attractions and is fast becoming a commercial centre and an important town in Dominica.