Carriacou Culture

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 and Grenada Cuisine

If you have an appetite for mouth-watering, spicy food with a vast range of exotic ingredients then the traditional cuisine of the southern Grenadines and Grenada is unsurpassable. The food they serve up on Grenada and Carriacou bears influences from the islands’ colonial history as well as indigenous elements, making a virtue out of a [...]

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