Antigua And Barbuda Country

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Sovereign: Queen Elizabeth 11(1952)

Governor-General: James Beethoven Carlisle (1993)

Prime Minister: Lester Bryant Bird (1994)

Land area: 171 sq. mi. (440 sq. km)

Population (1999 est.): 64,246 (average annual growth rate: 1.05%); birth rate: 16.2/1000; infant mortality rate:

20.7/1 000; density per sq. ml. 376

Capital and largest city (1991): St. John’s, 21,514; Codrington (capital of Barbuda), eat, pop. 1,000.

Monetary unit: East Caribbean dollar. Language:

English. Ethnicitylrace: black, British, Portuguese,

Lebanese, Syrian. Religions: Anglican and Roman

Catholic. Literacy rate: 90% Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1997 est.): $470

million; per capita $7,400. Real growth rate: 3.3%. Inflation: 2.5% (1996>. Unemployment: (1995 est.) 5%—10%. ArabIa land: 18%. Agriculture: cotton, fruits, vegetables, bananas, coconuts, cucumbers, mangoes, sugarcane, livestock. Labor force: 30,000; by occupation: industry, 7%; commerce and services, 82%; agriculture, 11%. Industry: tourism, construction, light manufacturing (clothing, alcohol, household appliances). Exports: $45 million (fob., 1996 eat.): petroleum products, manufactures, food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment. Imports: $350.8 million (fob., 1996 eat.): food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil. Major trading partners:

Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S., U.K., Canada. Member of Commonwealth of Nations

Geography Antigua, the larger of the two main islands located 295 miles (420 km) south-southeast of San Juan, P.R., is low-lying except for a range of hills in the south that rise to their highest point at Bogey Peak (1,330 ft.; 405 m). Well-wooded Antigua is 108 sq. miles (280 sq. km); the island dependencies of Redonda (an uninhabited rocky islet) and Barbuda (a coral island formerly known as Dulcina) are 0.5 sq. miles (1.30 sq. km) and 62 sq. miles (161 sq. km), respectively.

Government

Parliamentary democracy.

History Antigua was explored by Christopher Columbus in 1493 and named for the Church of Santa Maria de Ia Antigua in Seville. Antigua was colonized by Britain in 1632; Barbuda was first colonized in 1678. The country joined the West Indies Federation in 1958. With the breakup of the federation, it became one of the West Indies Associated States in 1967, self-governing its internal affairs. Full independence was granted Nov. 1, 1981.

The Bird family has controlled the islands since Vere C. Bird founded the Antigua Labor Party in the mid-1940s. Bird, the former prime minister, and his sons, one of whom is the current prime minister, have a history of corruption that includes money laundering, arms sales, drug trafficking, and extortion. In recent yeas the Russian Mafia has gained a foothold on the island. The U.K. and the U.S. have increased their pressure on Antigua to halt its illegal activities—the U.S. State Department bluntly called the island “one of the most attractive centers in the Caribbean for money launderers.”

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