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| Country | Grenada |
| Former Constituency | St Patrick's and Carriacou |
| constituency Minister | No-One |
| Capital City | Sauteurs |
| Constituency Year | 1924-Wednesday 15 May 1935 |
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St Patrick's and Carriacou is a former parliamentary constituency in Grenada. It was established in 1924 [1] and dissolved in 1935.
| Term | Member |
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| 1925–1931 | Fitz Henry Copland |
| 1931–1935 | Frederick B. Paterson |
Grenada is an island country located between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located at 12°07′N61°40′W. There are no large inland bodies of water on the island, which consists entirely of the state of Grenada. The coastline is 121 km long. The island has 15 constituencies and speaks English and Grenadian Creole. It is volcanic in origin and its topography is mountainous.
The politics of Grenada takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government. Grenada is an independent Commonwealth realm. It is governed under a multi-party parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom; it has a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. Constitutional safeguards include freedom of speech, press, worship, motion, and association. Grenada is a member of the eastern Caribbean court system. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Jurisprudence is based on English common law.
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Edward Roy Kent CBE was an estate owner, manager and agriculturalist in the Caribbean. He was made CBE in 1992 for services to agriculture and in 2007 received an Honorary Doctorate Of Laws from the University of the West Indies for his contribution to agriculture and the welfare of Carriacou and Carriacouans. A keen amateur historian, he was a founder member of the Carriacou Historical Society and was instrumental in raising funds to create the Carriacou Museum. Kent's memoirs, Up Before Dawn, were published posthumously in 2011.
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