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| | IFFISO : Saint-vincent and the Grenadines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The ?tail' of the comet of St Vincent (the Grenadines) is a string of islands and cays that splays south from Bequia (pronounced Beck-Way), Petit Nevis, Isle à Quatre and Pigeon Island to Battowia, Baliceaux, Mustique, Petit Mustique, Savan, Canouan, Petit Canouan, Mayreau and the Tobago Cays, Union Island, Palm Island and Petit St Vincent. |
 | | St Vincent and the Grenadines is poor by Eastern Caribbean standards, with agriculture the main source of income and export earnings. |
 | | St Vincent and the Grenadines is a constitutional monarchy in which executive power is vested in the British monarch, represented locally by a Governor General who appoints a prime minister and cabinet of ministers. |
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