Carriacou Regatta 2010 Results

Here are photos and results from the Carriacou Regatta 2010. Optimist Phoenix Mum Razor Fire Fox Press Dragon Fly Matrix Dark Rider Canoe E Tieron 2 That Pay That Vat Flu Small Open Boats A – Blue Unity 1 Marion Mistery Wet Pimpy Fidel Ark Royal Small Open Boats B – Blue Bad Feelings My [...]

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Carriacou Regatta Onshore Activities

Senator George Prime, The Minister for Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs, opened of the 45th annual Carriacou Regatta festival on Sunday 25th July. He said: “the Carriacou Regatta is a crucial and significant contributor to the continued development of Carriacou and Petite Martinique” Governor General, Sir Carlyle Glean, declared the Regatta opened at the Tennis [...]

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Carriacou Regatta 2010 Schedule of Activities

Carriacou Regatta Logo

The 45th annual Carriacou Regatta is taking place between Sunday 25th July and Monday 2nd August 2010. Boat Racing Friday July 30th 09:00 Yacht Race – Tyrell Bay 13:00 Sloop Trial Race – Windward Saturday July 31st 09:30 Round The Island Race -Windward 10:00 Yacht Race (Hillsborough) 11:00 Long Open Boat Race – L’Esterre Sunday [...]

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Grenadian Nursery Rhymes

Children and mothers the world over have been rhythmically chanting nursery rhymes since time immemorial, accompanying the words with often elaborate rituals of hand-clapping and body movements that seem to tap in to the collective unconscious. Children’s nursery rhymes often also preserve group memory in a highly condensed and eloquent form when the young singers [...]

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Carriacou Language and Sayings

With such a succession of European empire-builders romping through the Grenadines down the centuries since the ‘discovery’ of Grenada by Columbus in 1498, you might expect a wide variety of dialects in the Carriacou language derived from Spanish, French and British influences. In fact, English is the island’s official language, conveniently enough for most visitors, [...]

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Carriacou Regatta

Carriacou Regatta

‘More Race, More Fun in the Carriacou Sun!’ is the slogan of the annual Carriacou Regatta, entering its 45th year in 2010, and primarily the creation of one man, Jamaican-born John Linton Riggs. Riggs planned to retire to Carriacou in the early 1950s but found himself instead getting involved with the island’s culture and waning [...]

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Carriacou Carnival

Carnival time is always something to look forward to on Carriacou. It is celebrated in February, the weekend before Ash Wednesday, on the island and is characterised by an explosion of colour and noise in which everyone on Carriacou and neighbouring islands makes a contribution in one form or another. The history of carnival is [...]

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Getting to Carriacou

Osprey Ferry

It’s fair to say that getting to Carriacou is not quite as straightforward as hopping on a flight to NewYork or Miami, and you have to be a little bit creative. But this is all par for the course in the Caribbean, where things tend to be a bit laid back and flexible, and where [...]

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Grenada and Carriacou Music

Reggae Music

The music of a country is an indication of the essential character of its people. Germany has Wagner, solid and serious; Britain has the Pomp and Circumstance of Last Night of the Proms, still dreaming of her lost glory; and Carriacou has Reggae and Calypso. I rest my case. Carriacou music lies at the heart [...]

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Barracuda Point – Carriacou Dive Site

Barracuda Point, Carriacou is a premier dive site off the coast of the Grenadine island of Carriacou, one of the last tropical paradises on the planet. The diving sites around these crystal-clear, turquoise waters offer the most thrilling scuba diving opportunities in the world. Scuba diving is an art and a science that, once mastered, [...]

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