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Nobel Laureates, Sugar Cane, And Cruise Ships—The Productive Assets Of Pretty Little St. Lucia

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jan 14, 2010
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Nobel Laureates, Sugar Cane, And Cruise Ships—The Productive Assets Of Pretty Little St. Lucia

“St. Lucia is like a pretty girl with only her smiles to live off,” writes Correspondent Paul Lewis, continuing the reports from his early-winter cruise through the Caribbean.

“The island’s main export is Nobel Prize winners–it has had two so far. With a population of only 160,000, this makes it the world champion Nobel Prize-winning country.

“St. Lucia’s first laureate was Sir William Arthur Lewis, who received the Economics award in 1979. He launched the United Nations Development Program and championed the idea that education is more important than money in promoting development.

“St. Lucia’s second win came in 1992, when Derek Alton Walcott carried off the literature prize for his poetry, which mixes English and French in tribute to the island’s complex ancestry–it changed hands six times between Britain and France before Britain finally secured it in 1814. Here’s an example of his verse:

“‘Moi c’est gens St. Lucie. C’est la
Moi sorti, is there that I born.’

“But producing Nobel Laureates doesn’t pay the rent. So, at first, St. Lucia grew sugar and then switched to bananas, which it still produces for British supermarket chains, with each bunch ripening in a blue plastic bag to keep off bugs. But this isn’t enough either, so St. Lucia decided to attract tourists, for which it has developed a wicked talent.

“White cruise ships crowd the anchorages in the tiny capital of Castries, barely six blocks long and four deep but home to a cavernous Catholic Basilica (no less), where a creche shows a black Virgin and Child, as do two stained-glass windows.

“The island is mountainous and densely forested, but the roads are excellent and the villages neat and clean. It has a waterfall in the middle and two striking volcanic mountains on its southern tip, which look like giant upside-down ice cream cones and are called the Pitons.

“The people have charming French names dating from a century ago, like Theopilius Mondésir, Nelson Fevrier, and Myrille St. Phor. The Governor General, who represents Queen Elizabeth II, rejoices in the name Dame Peralette Louisy.

“Everyone speaks English, many speak French, and all communicate in an impenetrable patois of the two mixed up together.”

Kathleen Peddicord

 

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Kathleen Peddicord

Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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