Saint Paul Parish

Saint Paul Parish spans Dominica's eastern interior, containing agricultural communities that form part of the island's traditional economy now operating beneath the dominant CBI revenue structure. The parish's villages face the same dual reality as all rural Dominica: dependence on subsistence agriculture and remittances while benefiting from CBI-funded national infrastructure investment. Hurricane Maria's 226% GDP loss affected rural parishes acutely—agricultural plots destroyed, housing stock damaged, and recovery capacity limited. The CBI program's infrastructure focus has channeled reconstruction resources toward parish-level projects: roads, healthcare centers, school buildings, and the climate-resilient housing initiative. By 2030, Dominica aims to become the world's first climate-resilient nation—an ambition that requires transforming parish-level infrastructure across the entire island. Saint Paul Parish represents the interior counterpart to coastal tourism and capital-city commerce: communities producing food crops, maintaining traditional agricultural knowledge, and absorbing the shock of increasingly frequent severe weather events. The 2024 economic growth of 3.5% (projected 4.2% in 2025) reflects construction activity rather than agricultural expansion, yet construction projects increasingly reach interior parishes as CBI funding disperses. The program's geographic reach transforms Saint Paul from peripheral agricultural zone to integrated recipient of national development investment.