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BASIC DATA Official Country Name: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Region: Puerto Rico & Lesser Antilles Population: 115,461 Language(s): English, French patois Literacy Rate: 96% After the arrival of the white man, the history of education in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was inextricably bound up with the other Anglophonic people of the Caribbean region—including the Bahamas (where Christopher Columbus first made landfall), Trinidad, Jamaica, Prior to Columbus, the aboriginal Carib and Arawak peoples regarded education as the inculcation in their young of tribal values such as courage in adversity and skill in tracking game....
