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Grenada Guides
- Information about Grenada and it's sister islands Carriacou and Petit Martinique.
- Hotels on Grenada. Grenada Hotel Guide
- Grenada's Bathways Beach and Grande Anse
- Scenery of Grenada
- Pictures of Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique
- Diving Guidefor scuba divers in the southern caribbean and Grenada in particular.
- Eco holiday and hotel packages for environment aware tourism
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- Frequent updated section with newspaper articles and press releases
Grenada
Grenada, like many of
its island neighbours, owes is origins to violent volcanic activity - great
fissures in the earth's crust were created when Caribbean Plate forced the
oceanic Atlantic Plate to plunge towards the earth's hot mantle. There were
small reminders of such activity in the volcanic disturbances of 1902 and 1920.
Humans were probably the last living organisms to appear and they arrived as
long as 3 thousand years ago or more in the form of several different South
American tribes - the Calvignoid, the Galibi, the Suazoids and finally, in
around 1400, the warlike
Caribs.
The Cannons at Fort George in the capital of Grenada have borne witness to much
of the island's history over the last 250 years
Grenada finally
achieved independence on February 7th, 1974 under the leadership of the
charismatic and often controversial Sir Eric Gairy. While Gairy was off the
island in 1979 his key political opponent,
Maurice Bishop, seized power. A
staunch radical, Bishop proceeded to strengthen ties with the Soviet Union and
Cuba over the next four years. In 1983 an ultra-radical faction from within
Bishop's ruling New Jewel Movement, the People's Revolutionary Army, put him
under house arrest and took control. They later executed Bishop and several of
his aids.
The U.S. were worried about the safety of the American medical students studying
on Grenada and were concerned about the regional impact of another communist
regime. They decided to invade, and successfully removed the People's
Revolutionary Army from power in 1983. In 1984 Herbert Blaize was elected Prime
Minister of Grenada and the island has enjoyed a politically stable environment
and substantial U.S. aid too. Agriculture, light manufacturing and a
well-controlled expansion of the tourism sector has created a gradually
improving economy. On February 7th, Grenada proudly celebrates its anniversary since independence.Administratively, little changed in Grenada
until the island became an Associated State within the British Commonwealth in
1967. External matters were still controlled at this point by by the British.
Over the preceding 2 centuries Grenada became known as the Spice Isle - there
are more spices grown on Grenada per hectare than in any other place on the
planet - spices such as cloves, mace, cocoa, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg plus
many others. In fact, Grenada produces a third of the World's supply of
nutmeg
and it is the island's biggest export.
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