The excellent collaboration between the Saint Lucia National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO offices in Havana and Kingston demonstrated the potential for efficient regional cooperation through these entities.

UNESCO: CULTURA

It brings journalists from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago in ongoing contact with each other.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The 20 countries where fertility is at or below the level needed to sustain the current population include China, Hong Kong, Macao, North Korea, Iran, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Thailand, Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Barbados, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Chile.

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And, of course, there were the girls dressed in honour of St Lucia, who is the patron saint of light and vision and is thus much celebrated in a place where the winter sun barely rises above the horizon.

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