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Saint Lucia is one of two sovereign states in the world named after a female [16] and is the only one named after a woman (Ireland is named after a goddess). Legend states that French sailors were shipwrecked on the island on 13 December, the feast day of St. Lucy, and therefore named the island in her honour. [17]
St. Lucia's economy depends primarily on revenue from tourism and banana production, with some contribution from small-scale manufacturing. Although banana revenues have helped fund the country's development since the 1960s, the industry is now in a terminal decline, due to reduced European Union trade preferences and competition from lower ...
St. Lucia proposed introducing the common passport in early 2007 [3] and actually introduced it on 16 January 2007. [ 4 ] Trinidad and Tobago announced that it would begin to issue the new CARICOM passport in June 2006, and then indicated that it would introduce the passport in July 2006 along with Guyana, [ 5 ] but only introduced the passport ...
The first stamps issued by St. Lucia were put on sale in 1860 and consisted of three duties (1d, 4d and 6d). The stamps were printed by Perkins Bacon Ltd using the line-engraved process. [5] To save the colony money, only one plate was engraved, with the duties identified by the colour of the stamps, red for 1d, blue for 4d and green for 6d.
An ordinance issued in 1817, by the Governor of Saint Lucia, Richard Augustus Seymour, confirmed that the customs, laws, and regulations of France remained in place. [71] This created confusion for British administrators who had to interpret the unfamiliar language and laws, as well as conflict with the French judiciary and British governors. [72]
The post of Chairman (Head of CARICOM) is held in rotation by the regional Heads of Government of CARICOM's 15 member states. These include Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.
The location of Saint Lucia An enlargeable relief map of Saint Lucia. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Saint Lucia: . Saint Lucia is a sovereign island nation located in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the eastern Caribbean Sea adjacent to the North Atlantic Ocean. [1]
Brimstone Hill fortress in St. Kitts, Map of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, silver compass rose, Les Pitons (volcanoes) in St. Lucia, sooty tern, tropical fish EC$100 St. Lucian economist Sir William Arthur Lewis, map of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States , silver compass rose, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank building ...