St. Vincent
Geography:
- Location:
- Independent state, West Indies, consisting of the island of Saint Vincent and the northern islands of the Grenadines group. Part of the Windward Islands group in the South-Eastern Caribbean Sea, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines lies south of Saint Lucia and North of Grenada.
- Area:
- Total: 389 sq km (Saint Vincent 344 sq km)
- Water: 0 sq km
- Land: 389 sq km
- Coastline:
- 84 km
- Maritime Claims:
- Contiguous Zone: 24 nm
- Territorial Sea: 12 nm
- Exclusive Economic Zone: 200 nm
- Continental Shelf: 200 nm
- Natural Resources:
- Hydropower, Cropland
Government:
- Country name:
- conventional short form: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Government type: parliamentary democracy; independent sovereign state within the Commonwealth
- Capital: Kingstown
- Administrative divisions: 6 parishes; Charlotte, Grenadines, Saint Andrew, Saint David, Saint George, Saint Patrick
- International organization participation: ACP, C, Caricom, CDB, ECLAC, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ITU, OAS, OECS, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WTrO
Economy:
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.4% (2001 est.)
- Industries: food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch
- Agriculture - products: bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats; fish
- Exports: $53.7 million (2000 est.)
- Exports - commodities: bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets
- Imports: $185.6 million (2000 est.)
- Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels
- Currency: East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
National Policy:
- Marine Affairs Policy
- Marine Science & Research Policy
- Coastal Area Policy
- Environment Policy
Institutional Structure:
- Fisheries Department. Ministry of Agriculture & Industry
- Kingston, St.Vincent & the Grenadines
- Telephone: 8094572070 Fax: 8094571688
- Government Ministries
- Office of the Prime Minister
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 809 456 1703 Fax: 809 457 2152
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tourism and Information
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 809 465 2060 Fax: 809 465 2610
- Ministry of Finance
- Government Complex
- Queen Elizabeth Highway
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 809 456 1343 Fax: 809 457 2943
- Ministry of Planning
- Administrative Building
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 1 809 457 1746 Fax: 1 809 456 2430
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Consumer Affairs
- Government Complex
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 1 809 456 1223 Fax: 1 809 457 2880
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Women's Affairs and Ecclesiastical Affairs
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 1 809 457 1104 Fax: 1 809 457 1114
- Ministry of Agriculture and Labour
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 1 809 457 2934 Fax: 1 809 457 1688
- Ministry of Communications and Works
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 1 809 457 2031 Fax: 1 809 456 2168
- Ministry of Health and the Environment
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 1 809 457 2586 Fax: 1 809 457 2684
- Ministry of Housing, Youth, Local government and Community Development
- Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines, WI
- Tel: 1 809 457 1401
National Focal Point for IOCARIBE
- Ms. Michelle Forbes
- National Emergency Management Organization NEMO
- Ministry of National Security
- VC0100 Kingstown, St Vincent
- Tel: (1-784) 4562975
- Fax: (1-784) 4561691
For more information about Saint Vincent and the Grenadines visit their Central Intelligence Agency Factsheet.