Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

1. Saint Vincent and The Grenadines BY: Curry Lin Michael Wijaya "Pax et justitia""Peace and justice"

2. Geography • Location: Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago • Area: total: 389 sq km (Saint Vincent 344 sq km) land: 389 sq km water: 0 sq km • Climate: tropical; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May to November) • Natural resources: hydropower, cropland

3. Geography

4. Travel Trough time • 1719: French settlers and cultivated coffee, tobacco, indigo, cotton and sugar on plantation work by African slaves. • 1763: St. Vincent was ceded to Britain. • 1779: Restore to French rule. • 1783: St. Vincent was regained by the British under the Treaty of Paris in which Great Britain officially recognized the end of the American Revolution. • 1795: Conflict between the British and the Black Caribs, led by defiant Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer • 1834: Slavery was abolished and end prematurely 1938 http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2345.htm

5. Travel Trough time 2 • 1902: La Soufrière volcano erupted, killing 2,000 people. • April 1979, La Soufrière erupted again. No one was killed, thousands had to be evacuated, and extensive agricultural damage. • In 1980 and 1987: Hurricanes compromised banana and coconut plantation. • 1998 and 1999: Saw very active hurricane seasons. • 1999: Hurricane Lenny in causing extensive damage to the west coast of the island. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2345.htm

6. Trivia: Saint Vincent and the grenadines has one of the few forts in the world where the canons point in land rather than towards the sea. Saint Vincent are one of the oldest botanical garden in Western Hemisphere.

7. People

8. Quick Fact 1: • Population: 118,432 (July 2008 est.) • Nationality: noun: Saint Vincentian(s) or Vincentian(s) adjective: Saint Vincentian or Vincentian • Population growth rate:0.231% • Birth rate: 15.82 births/1,000 • Death rate: 5.96 deaths/1,000 • Life expectancy at birth: total population: 74.34 years male: 72.42 years female: 76.31 years https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vc.html#People

9. Quick Fact 2: • Ethnic groups: black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, European 4%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 3% • Religions: Anglican 47% Methodist 28% Roman Catholic 13% other (includes Hindu, Seventh-Day Adventist, other Protestant) 12% • Languages:The official language is English French in some of the grenadines and Creole or dialect use on informal situations. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vc.html#People

10. The people • The Ciboney, a grouping of Meso-Indians. • The Arawak, who entered the West Indies from Venezuela and moved gradually north and west along the islands. • The Caribs arriving in St. Vincent perhaps no more than 100 years before the Europeans. • The descendants of African slaves became known as “Black Caribs” http://www.svgtourism.com/channels/1.asp?id=60&prev_place=&cps=0&cpp=0

11. Social life • Classes and Castes: • Small elite composed of foreign-educated black Vincentians and the white planter families. • Small middle class of government employees and business professionals. • Large class of poor people and the Caribs are the poorest people on the island. • A community of foreign expatriates who have taken Vincentian citizenship live in the southeast section of the main island. • Foreign whites control Mustique, Petit Saint Vincent, and Palm Island. • Problems and Control: • Unemployment, underemployment, and the drug trade. • Transshipment point for illegal drugs from South America to the United States. http://www.everyculture.com/No-Sa/Saint-Vincent-and-the-Grenadines.html

12. Education • School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): • total: 12 years male: 12 years female: 12 years • Education expenditures:8.1% of GDP https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vc.html#People

13. Politics

14. Government • Independent on 27 October 1979 • Parliamentary democratic • Commonwealth Realm • Part of the Caribbean community( CARICOM) • Prime minister -Ralph Gonsalves • Governor General- Frederick Nathaniel Ballantyne • The parliamentary term of office is five years, although the prime minister may call elections at any time. http://www.gov.vc/govt/government/

15. Parties TreeBranches Executive branch Cabinet To help to decide the policy Legislation branch Pass laws Judicial branch Enforce the laws • People's Political Party • New Democratic Party • Unity Labour Party https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vc.html#Govt

16. Economy

17. Quick facts • Currency: Eastern Caribbean Dollar, EC$ • Exchange rate: US$1=EC$2.6882 • GDP: $1.042 billion • GDP per capita: $9,800 • GDP by sector: Agriculture: 10% Industry: 26% Services: 64% • Labor forces: 41,680 (1991 est.) • Labor force by occupation: Agriculture: 26% Industry: 17% Services:57% • Unemployment rate 15% https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vc.html#Govt

18. Agriculture product • bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, eddo, spices, cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, fish • Industry • Plastic products, food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vc.html#Govt

19. Export • $193 million (2006) • bananas, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets

20. Import • $578 million (2006) • foodstuffs, machinery, equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals, fuels

21. Health care • Public Health system provide free or small pay of health care • Train nurses and export to other country • National Insurance • Kenton X.Chance talk about health care system in Saint Vincent and the grenadines: http://www.everyculture.com/No-Sa/Saint-Vincent-and-the-Grenadines.html

22. Tourism • Pirates of the Caribbean movies • 32 islands have their own features • Government invest tourism a lot • Hiking, diving, swimming, enjoy the scenic, bird watching • Transportation between islands are convenient http://www.svgtourism.com

24. Media

25. Theculture

26. Nine mornings • celebrated annually during the nine mornings before Christmas. • Vincentians awake in the early hours of the morning. • In the rural areas, the final morning of the festivity usually ended with a steel band “jump-up”.

27. Nine mornings • The origins: Jamali jack:”….The slave in st Vincent in the 1700-1600 in Christmas time they were not allowed to go to church, so when the plantation owner go to church the slave will be outside, they will have their own festival..”

28. Music • Music scene based on: Drum, Soca, Calypso, steelpan, etc. • Reggae, bele and quadrille music. • Soca: Ragga & Traditional • The national anthem is “St. Vincent! Land So beautiful”

29. Carnival • Similar with carnival in most others country in Caribbean region. • Popularly know as Vincy Mas. • Happen in between June and July • The highlight is the Miss Carnival beauty show.

30. Vincy Mas 2008

31. Thank you!