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‘Jan­u­ary 27^th, 1875, was the date that Dominica saw the birth of its most illus­tri­ous daugh­ter, Eliz­a­beth Israel. Accord­ing to offi­cial records of The Roman Catholic Church (Roseau Dio­cese), Magde­line Israel, mother and an undoc­u­mented father gave birth to baby Eliz­a­beth. Although Elizabeth’s mother resided on The Col­i­haut Estate sit­u­ated on the west coast of Dominica, she while in an advance state of her preg­nancy with Eliz­a­beth; migrated (by foot) to an area of The Picard Estate called Tibay. It was in Tibay that Pam­powas born and being the first of her mother’s six chil­dren, she enjoyed the lux­ury of their trash cov­ered, mud-paved house.’

So begins the story of the World’s Old­est Liv­ing per­son, Eliz­a­beth Israel; 128 years young.

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