Bananas are vulnerable to tropical hurricanes which have more than once nearly wiped out wiped out large portions of crops over recent decades. The risk of relying so much on a single crop is an obstacle to the islands’ commercial development. Diverse other industries lag behind these two leading income sources and unemployment rate often remains over 14%. More than tourism, agriculture dominates with the export of bananas as it major product. Of the 33 islands in this country only 10 have tourist infrastructure. St Vincent has a modestly busy tourist industry that draws at least 200,000 visitors a year, with half arriving on cruise ships. This You Tube video offers a picturesque tour of the island’s beauty and charm mostly from a tourist perspective nevertheless it is still a pretty place in the sun. Some intermarried with the Caribs and became known as Garifuna or Black Caribs. Previously, it was inhabited by escaped or shipwrecked slaves from Barbados, Saint Lucia and Grenada who sought refuge. The Caribs resisted European settlement on Saint Vincent until 1719 when the brutal French arrived from Martinique. Its capital and main port is Kingstown.įor centuries it was called Hairouna (“The Land of the Blessed”) by the Carib natives. The island is densely populated country with about 123,000 inhabitants. The main island of Saint Vincent measures 18 km (11 mi) long, 11 km (6.8 mi) in width and is 344 km2 (133 sq mi) in area.
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SVG has 389 km2 (150 sq mi) of territory consisting of the main island of Saint Vincent plus the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines islands (32 smaller islands) stretching south from DVG to Grenada (which owns the other one third of the Grenadines. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, in the southern portion of the Windward Island, which doesn’t mean much to most people unless looking at a map (right). But cultural considerations should not stand in the way of basic human rights.”
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Social attitudes run deep and take time to change. In a written response UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently stated: “No doubt deeply rooted cultural sensitivities can be aroused when we talk about sexual orientation. In hollow self-justification, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines note the hundreds of years that it took for the United Kingdom to repeal similar legislation “compared them to the relatively short period of time that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has been an independent state, and the less punitive sanctions involved, we are ahead of Britain… In the context of the moral, societal and cultural makeup of the State, there is currently no desire to revisit that legislation.”ĭespite the urging of the UN and numerous foreign countries the government of St Vincent continues to resist these recommendation saying that it “requires extensive national consultation given the nature of the issues involved.”īizarrely, the Government claims there are no discriminatory laws against gays, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as the constitution prohibits discrimination in all forms related to the enjoyment of people’s rights and freedoms. It was inherited from the British, whose Buggery Act and Offenses against the Person Act both predated the local legislation. In many homophobic countries HIV work is often a legitimate cover for LGBT people to associate with one another within the purpose of HIV education and care.īut hanging over the work is the law that criminalizes consensual homosexual acts between adults in private. There is one ‘indirect’ agency, the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance in Saint Vincent has successfully attempted to bridge the gap between HIV prevention and social support services for at-risk groups such as MSMs and sex workers.
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As a result, most LGBT people in St Vincent get married to opposite gender spouses and some of those live on the ‘down-low’ for secret pleasure and authentic affection. There’s no dedicated place for LGBT citizens to go for support if one is young and gay or coming-out in middle age. But, at least Grenada has one LGBT organization. Gay Life in St Vincent and the Grenadines follows close on the unhappy LGBT situation in nearby Grenada–it is illegal, stigmatized and not tolerated well by the locals.
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