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" The origin of the name " Grenada " is obscure, but it is likely that Spanish sailors renamed the island for the city of Granada.

Grenada continued to practise a modified Westminster parliamentary system based on the British model with a governor general appointed by and representing the British monarch ( head of state ) and a prime minister who is both leader of the majority party and the head of government.

Grenada, known as the Spice Isle because of its production of nutmeg and mace, is the largest at 310 square kilometers, or about the size of Detroit.

Grenada is more rugged and densely foliated than its outlying possessions, but other geographical conditions are more similar.

The only known active volcano in the area is Kick_ ' em_Jenny, just north between Grenada and Carriacou.

: The administration of the islands of the Grenadines group is divided between Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ( northern Grenadines ) and Grenada ( southern Grenadines )

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Grenada, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Politics of Grenada takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Grenada is an independent country and Commonwealth Realm.

Grenada is a member of the eastern Caribbean court system.

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.

Security in Grenada is maintained by the 650 members of the Royal Grenada Police Force ( RGPF ), which included an 80-member paramilitary special services unit ( SSU ) and a 30-member coast guard.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Grenada by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

The country's principal export crops are the spices nutmeg and mace ( Grenada is the world ’ s second largest producer of nutmeg after Indonesia ).

Although signs of recovery have been seen in Grenada after the damage inflicted by Hurricanes Ivan and Emily, economic conditions remain difficult ; GDP is projected at a growth rate of only one percent for 2005.

Grenada is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank ( ECCB ), which manages monetary policy and issues a common currency for all the member countries.

Grenada ’ s economy is vulnerable to external shocks considering its high dependence on tourism, exports, and imports of most of the goods that are consumed or invested domestically.

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Ivan and Emily, the priority now for Grenada is to continue the recovery process necessary to restore the infrastructure that was devastated by the hurricanes.

Grenada is a member of the Caribbean Development Bank, CARICOM, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ), and the Commonwealth of Nations.

Grenada also is a member of the Eastern Caribbean's Regional Security System ( RSS ).

The U. S. Ambassador to Grenada is resident in Bridgetown, Barbados.

* Caribbean SuperStation, a Trinidad & Tobago based radio station broadcasting to Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Antigua, St. Kitts, Montserrat and British Virgin Islands

Within a year of her inauguration she survived two unsuccessful coups and in October 1983, as chairperson of the Organization of East Caribbean States, endorsed the US Invasion of Grenada.

The recorded history of the Caribbean island of Grenada begins in the early 17th century.

A U. S .- Caribbean force invaded Grenada on October 25, 1983 in an action called Operation Urgent Fury, and swiftly defeated the Grenadan forces and their Cuban allies.

In the context of regional economic development, further integration into the Eastern Caribbean regional economy will help enhance Grenada ’ s competitiveness and increase its scale of economy in production, marketing and distribution.

On October 1983, during the U. S. invasion of Grenada, U. S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean.

In the English-speaking Caribbean such as Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada and in Trinidad and Tobago, the term " cutlass " is used for these agricultural tools.

* 1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d ' état.

In the Caribbean, the island of Grenada is well known for growing and exporting a number of spices, including the nutmeg, which was introduced to Grenada by the settlers.

The common or fragrant nutmeg, Myristica fragrans, native to the Banda Islands of Indonesia, is also grown in Penang Island in Malaysia and the Caribbean, especially in Grenada.

The appearance of French fleets in the Caribbean was followed by the capture of a number of the sugar islands, including Tobago and Grenada.

* 1983-U. S. invades Grenada in response to a coup d ’ état by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard on the Caribbean island.

* Audio from a talk by Richard Hart ( Ex-Attorney General of Grenada ) on slave revolts in the Caribbean

In a qualification game for the 1994 Caribbean Cup, Barbados deliberately scored a late own goal in a successful attempt to advance to the finals stage by forcing golden-goal extra time against Grenada, as an unusual tournament rule stated that golden goals counted as double.

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The Whistling Dove is endemic to the tiny Kadavu Island in Fiji, the Caroline Ground-dove is restricted to two islands, Truk and Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands and the Grenada Dove is restricted to Grenada in the Caribbean.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Grenada, was inhabited by Carib Indians who had driven the more peaceful Arawaks from the island.

Conflict broke out between the French and the indigenous islanders in November 1649 and fighting lasted for five years until 1654, when the last opposition to the French on Grenada was crushed-although the island continued for some time after to suffer raids by war canoe parties from St. Vincent, who had aided the local Grenadan islanders in their struggle and continued to oppose the French.

In 1675 Grenada was captured by Dutch Privateers, but luckily for the French, a French man-of-war arrived unexpectedly, and the island was recaptured.

There are no large inland bodies of water on the island, which consists entirely of the state of Grenada.

During the New Jewel Movement, the Soviet Union tried to make the island of Grenada to function as a Soviet base, and also by getting supplies from Cuba.

The country consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, a chain of small islands stretching south from Saint Vincent to Grenada.

Butler ( an immigrant from the neighbouring island of Grenada ) shook the country and led to the formation of the modern Trade Union movement.

After the Government of Barbados officially exited from the Windward Island union in 1885, the seat was moved from Bridgetown to St. George's on the neighbouring island of Grenada, where it remained until the territory of the Windward Islands was dissolved.

* Tivoli, Grenada, a town in the north east of the island of Grenada

' Carriacou and Petite Martinique ' is a dependency of Grenada, lying north of Grenada island and south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Lesser Antilles.

The neighbouring island of Petite Martinique is 2½ miles away from Carriacou, and also a part of Grenada.

In 1791, Gun Point ( Rapid Point ) which had been a division of the Grenadines, was made a latitude on the island, but the point belonged to Saint Vincent and the rest of Carriacou belonged to Grenada.

There still is a British influence on the island as it was colonised by the British Empire and it is part of Grenada, a Commonwealth state.

Though Hurricane Ivan in 2004 dealt a devastating blow to the island of Grenada, remarkably, Carriacou and Petite Martinique suffered significantly less damage.

Led by Gregor MacGregor in 1817, a colorful Scottish-born South American freedom fighter, 55 musketeers seized Fort San Carlos, claiming the island on behalf of " the brethren of Mexico, Buenos Ayres, New Grenada and Venezuela ".