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Grenada News, What's On and Calendar of Events

Rock the Spice Music Festival
@ National Stadium Grenada Rock D Spice Festival May 29th – 31st 2009

Fisherman Birthday 29th June - More

Take a trip along the western coast to Gouyave. The coast is sprinkled with fishing villages, and Gouyave hosts the annual Fisherman's Birthday Celebration each June. Other points of interest in Gouyave are tours of nutmeg and clove plantations and the Mayouba Fisherman's Museum.

Grenada Carnival 4-8th August

Sunshine Promotions Mother's Day "A night of Love" - Music Festival - Click here
@ National Stadium, Saturday May 8th with Percy Sledge, Freddy McGregor and Queen Ifrica

Aqua Easter Jazz Fest- Sunday April 4th
Mangrove Hideaway Grill and Sport Bar Presents Aqua Easter Jazz Fest featuring Kingsley Ettienne, star musicians Lester
Boyke and Michael Redhead also known as Skel from the Royal Grenada Police Band on Sunday 4th April . This will be a night to remember. For more information click here

Carriacou Carnival - 15th - 16th February
Carnival celebrations in Carriacou are held from the weekend before the start of the Christian Lenten period. In the tradition of Caribbean Carnivals, these celebrations include calypso competitions and the parade of brightly costumed masqueraders thorugh the streets of the main villages.

Unique to Carriacou Carnival is the Shakespeare Mas, in which brightly dressed Peirrots engage in a battle of wits using only lines from Shakespearean plays. The competitor without a quick reply earns a playful stroke from his opponent's stick. Links: About Carriacou.

Grenada's Independence - 7th February
- On February 7th 1974, Grenada declared its independence from the British and adopted a modified Westminster parliamentary system based on the British model, with a governor general appointed by and representing the British monarch (head of state) and a prime minister who is both leader of the majority party and the head of government.

Each year on February 7th, Grenadians celebrate the anniversary of their independence, with national ceremonies and parades featuring the Royal Grenada Police Force, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and various schools. The day is a public holiday, when banks and most shops are closed.

In Grenada celebrates its 36th Anniversary of Independence.

Billfish tournament - January 24th - 28th
The 41st “Grand Slam Grenada” Spice Island Billfish Tournament attracted a joint record turnout of Fifty One boats (last time we had this many was 1994!) carrying 244 anglers which somehow squeezed into the Grenada Yacht Club, home of the event. Boats entered from Trinidad & Tobago (27 boats – more than half the entry!), St Lucia (2 boats), Barbados (6 boats), Martinique (4 boats), United Kingdom (1 boat), and Grenada (10 boats). One boat “Rum n Coke” made the long voyage down from Antigua just to take part. The fishing was somewhat slower than last year with the official results showing sixty nine billfish released and only two blue marlin landed (biggest being four hundred and seventy three pounds by Cool Runnings from Trinidad and Tobago). Of course many more billfish escaped and additional catches of yellowfin tuna to 167 lbs and Dorado to 47lb kept anglers busy.

Carriacou Regatta - July 25th - August 2nd
This Festival started in 1965 as a mere boat racing event in Hillsborough Bay, Carriacou. Carriacou Regatta festival has now grown to become the biggest summer festival in the region. Held over the Emancipation weekend each year, it now includes a large number of Sporting and Cultural activity. The Regatta Race events focus mainly on the locally built ‘Workboats' with some twelve different classes of boats ranging from 14 to 35 feet in length and participation from Tobago, Grenada, Canouan, Mayreau, Bequia (Grenadines), Petite Martinique, Antigua and Carriacou. Other aspects of the festival includes: donkey racing, greasy pole, Miss Wet T-shirt, Miss Aquaval Queen Show with participation from Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, Canouan, Union Island and host Carriacou; road races and much more.

Grenada Sailing Festival - Jan 31st - Feb 2nd

Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina will be hosting four days of International yacht racing, together with the traditional two-day Digicel Work Boat Regatta off Grand Anse Beach.

Grenada Celebrates 300 years of St. George's - History of St. George's

Gouyave Fish Friday - More
Held every Friday night. A feast of fish cooked in a variety of ways

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