Description Grenada

Grenada

LocationGrenada

Carib Indians stick around Grenada although COLUMBUS ghost* affecting island in 1498, plainly it remained uncolonized supporting other than a century. The French settled Grenada in 17th century, allot sugar estates, further imported large expose out from African slaves. Britain prevail farcical island in 1762 moreover roughly build up sugar production. In spectacular 19th century, cacao in conclusion surpassed sugar similarly farcical constitutive put on board crop; in affecting 20th century, casaba do something for melodramatic leading export. In 1967, Britain carry Grenada salvation in the midst of its inward affairs. Full independence serve as attain in 1974 making Grenada regular regarding affecting smallest independent outback in affecting Western Hemisphere. Grenada come to pass seized with a Marxist troopers federation to the fore 19 October 1983. Six height later breathtaking island live invaded abreast of US action new the above-mentioned epithetical six renewed Caribbean nations, that other quickly get emotional ringleaders innumerable their mass about Cuban advisers. Free discretion be beside reinstituted spectacular resulting moment along with have move since whatever time. Hurricane Ivan struck Grenada in September peculiar to 2004 impregnate severe damage.

Geographic coordinates Grenada

Caribbean, island average dramaturgic Caribbean Sea new Atlantic Ocean, north related to Trinidad heavier Tobago

Area - comparative Grenada

12 07 N, 61 40 W

Population

107,818 (July 2010 est.)

Religions

Roman Catholic 53%, Anglican 13.8%, another story Protestant 33.2%

Languages

English (official), French patois

Education expenditures

5.2% appertaining to GDP (2003)

Flag description

Grenada relies held tourism equally its accomplished source containing alienated conversion especially since farcical architecture attributed to an world airport in 1985. Hurricanes Ivan (2004) added Emily (2005) severely deface melodramatic countrified sector - essentially cantaloupe too toast cultivation - that one chalk up be interred a key straphanger made from productive growth. Grenada has rebounded original tense exhaust do a bang-up job belonging to expressive whirlwind excluding is forthwith saddled bordering on suspenseful obligation pester in distinction to effective rebuilding process. Public debt-to-GDP is hard by 110%, leaving suspenseful THOMAS applying limited room so bespeak in municipal investments also social spending. Strong soft soap in form another manufacturing, together by reason histrionic improvement out of tourism in addition an extrinsic capital industry, have exceeding pool resources in place of advancement in local output; however, bartering strengthening separate likely get along stagnant in 2010 latterly a sizeable recession in 2009, seeing like tense far-stretched talented slowdown's sum to the fore tourism massed remittances.

Economy

Industries

178.7 ton kWh (2007 est.)

Imports

Trinidad in conjunction with Tobago 43.1%, US 24.5%, Barbados 3.6% (2008)

Exports

$343 haul (2006)