Liming – St Vincent and Bequia -On the Waterfront

One afternoon after our session, Andrew and I were looking out over the harbour from the Central Administration complex.  When people started going home from their office and shop work in town, the…

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Liming – St Vincent and Bequia – New people and Experiences

My quick trip over to St Vincent that week was uneventful, but on return visits I discovered more.  On my second trip I was staying in central Kingstown, in the fabulous Cobblestone Inn.  Although …

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Liming – On the Edge – Balance in the Midst of Stormy Seas

The alternative view is to try to build up capital, import the goods you cannot get locally, buy into the global economy and sell it back what it wants, sunshine and sea.  Thus the hotels are getti…

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Liming – On the Edge – Influences and Outlooks

Despite this, the feeding of US TV through  the cables and satellite receivers is affecting the culture – the kids see more of the TV than they do of their parents, it is their nannies and tell the…

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Liming – On the Edge – Diversity in the Caribbean

We were told to concentrate on natural resources, and I think our paymasters were expecting a report that covered just the conflict between fisheries and tourism.  As I gathered more information an…

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Liming – On the Edge – Wind and Working out the Islands

For the rest of the year, the trade wind doth blow.  Mainly from the north east, these pummel the east or windward sides of the islands.  The Caribbean side lays in the lee and most of the towns an…

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Liming – On the Edge – Living on the Edge

The chain of islands that make up the eastern Caribbean are very new in geological time.  They were formed when the small Caribbean Plate started to rub up against the Atlantic Plate.  The Caribbea…

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Liming – On the Edge – Exploring St Lucia

By the Wednesday, we were getting tired.  We saw little hope of moving the St Vincent project on, and Keith persuaded me that I should go and meet with my counterparts in Kingstown, the capital, so…

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Liming – On the Edge – OECS

He took me to his workplace the next morning, possibly the finest place I have ever worked in my whole life.  The Natural Resources Management Unit (NRMU) of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean S…

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Liming – On the Edge – Dominoes

I wandered back to the hotel – it seemed a long way back round the end of the airport, and settled again before Keith picked me up late afternoon.  As he always did, he asked how I felt and we chat…

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