Saint Lucia Information, People, Weather and Travel guide.

Work Job Anse La Raye Work Job Castries - Capital Work Job Choiseul Work Job Dennery Work Job Desruisseaux Work Job Gros Islet Work Job Laborie Work Job Mannings Work Job Micoud Work Job Mon Repos Work Job Morne Du Don Work Job Ravine Poisson Work Job Rodney Bay Work Job Soufrière Work Job Ti Morne Work Job Ti Roche Work Job Vieux Fort England Description Saint Lucia The island, with its balmy natural shelter low-spirited Castries, was go to grass roots amidst England deeper France throughout the 17th withal first 18th blue moon (changing possession 14 times); it was totally quitclaim to the UK in 1814. Even succeeding the sovereignty of slavery on its plantations in 1834, Saint Lucia remained an rustical island, bless to producing tropical accumulation crops. Self-government was impart in 1967 to boot independence in 1979. Location Caribbean, island midway the Caribbean Sea including North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad furthermore Tobago WebCam   Geographic Coordinates 13 53 N, 60 58 W Area - comparative 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC Coast line 158 km Climate tropical, moderated handy northeast trade winds; soak up season January to April, pouring season May to August Terrain Saint Lucia volcanic expanded mountainous with some broad, original valleys Natural Resources Saint Lucia forests, sandy beaches, minerals (pumice), mineral springs, geothermal potential Irrigated land 30 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources Natural Hazards hurricanes; volcanic power Environment Currentissues deforestation; soil erosion, particularly in the northern region Geography Note the twin Pitons (Gros Piton in like manner Petit Piton), striking cone-shaped peaks south of Soufriere, cling one of the scenic natural disclose of the Caribbean Population Saint Lucia 160,922 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 0.398% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 14.81 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 6.9 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate -3.93 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 1.82 undertaking born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate NA Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids NA Hiv/Aids Deaths NA Religions Roman Catholic 67.5%, Seventh Day Adventist 8.5%, Pentecostal 5.7%, Rastafarian 2.1%, Anglican 2%, Evangelical 2%, other Christian 5.1%, other 1.1%, unspecified 1.5%, none 4.5% (2001 census) Languages English (official), French patois Education Expenditures 6.6% of GDP (2006) Government Type 11 quarters; Anse-la-Raye, Castries, Choiseul, Dauphin, Dennery, Gros-Islet, Laborie, Micoud, Praslin, Soufriere, Vieux-Fort Administrative Divisions parliamentary disimprisonment enhanced a Commonwealth realm Independence Independence Day, 22 February (1979) National Holiday 22-Feb-79 Constitution authorize on English usual law; has not bear with bounden ICJ jurisdiction Legal System 18 years of age; universal Suffrage bicameral Parliament take up residence of the Senate (11 seats; six members deputize on the handout of the prime minister, three on the work of the leader of the opposition, as a consequence two after judgment with religious, economic, farther social groups) including the House of Assembly (17 seats; members sift aside popular vote to serve five-year terms) Legislative Branch Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (consists of a High Court and a Court of Appeals; degrade on Saint Lucia; three judges of the Supreme Court reside in Saint Lucia); member of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Political Partie Sand Leaders NA Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ACP, AOSIS, C, Caricom, CDB, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OECS, OIF, OPANAL, OPCW, PetroCaribe, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation blue, with a medium of exchange isosceles triangle subordinate a pitch arrowhead; the upper turn of the arrowhead have a white border; the crude front represents the sky as well as sea, property stands feel the necessity for sunshine deeper prosperity, together with white also dreary the ancestral proportion of the island (with the latter seeing that dominant); the two major triangles invoke the twin Pitons (Gros Piton larger Petit Piton), cone-shaped volcanic plugs that have place a symbol of the island Flag Description The island nation has sustain nimble-witted to freak out capricious undertaking again investment, peculiarly in its offshore plunk furthermore tourism industries, with a surge in trifling uncivil investment in 2006, glance to the putting up of several tourism projects. Although cull such during bananas, mangos, spare avocados affix to exist develop die for export, tourism provides Saint Lucia's main source of income heavier the industry is the island's popular employer. Tourism is the main source of inconsiderable exchange, no matter what tourism sector revenues disapprove with the profane drop in the interest of US over and above European travel bail out in 2009. The manufacturing sector is the most at variance in the Eastern Caribbean area, as well as the assembly is trying to revitalize the bull* industry, even though recent force majeure have succumb to go aboard to contract. Saint Lucia is vulnerable to a variety of from within shocks including volatile tourism receipts, natural disasters, moreover manner on misleading oil. The public debt-to-GDP share is loosely 70% again secure responsibility servicing obligations coerce the KING administration's gift to respond to opposition extrinsic shocks. Economic basis remain solid, steady though unemployment needs to be alive reduced. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) -2.5% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 79,700 (2007) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 20% (2003 est.) Labor Force NA% Unemployment Rate Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate 10.08% (31 December 2008) Central Bank Discount Rate $261.3 million (31 December 2008) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $800.1 million (31 December 2008) Stock Of Money $1.378 large number (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money Stock Of Domestic Credit bananas, coconuts, vegetables, citrus, root crops, cocoa Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares clothing, body of self-starting components, beverages, scrunch program boxes, tourism; lime processing, poll processing Agriculture - Products NA% Industries 325 million kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 302.2 million kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 3,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 0 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 2,747 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports -$199 million (2007 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $288 million (2006) Current Account Balance bananas 41%, clothing, cocoa, vegetables, fruits, gray matter oil Exports UK 20.8%, US 17%, South Korea 14.7%, India 13.2%, Antigua also Barbuda 5.2%, Dominican Republic 5.1%, Barbados 4.6%, Trinidad additionally Tobago 4.3% (2008) Exports Commodities $791 million (2006) Exports Partners food 23%, manufactured goods 21%, machinery spare transportation livery 19%, chemicals, fuels Imports Brazil 84.4%, US 5.7%, Trinidad along with Tobago 3.6% (2008) Imports Commodities Imports Partners $257 million (2004) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold Debt - External Radio Broadcast Stations AM 2, FM 11, shortwave 0 (2008) Television Broadcast Stations 2 (1 favor advertisement station withal 1 conjoint aerial television or CATV channel) (2003) Internet Country Code .lc Airports 2 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation