Fun Facts:
Molinere Bay Underwater Sculpture Park is listed as one of National Geographic’s 25 Wonders of the World. It was the first of Jason deCaires Taylor’s underwater gardens, and was widely acclaimed as the first of its kind.
This sculpture features a group of 26 children holding hands in a circle. Some say it represents the circle of life, while others say that the children represent slaves thrown off ships so many years ago. Still another analogy suggests that the concrete sculpture depicts “the adaptability of children in any environment as the sea embraces them and the children become part of their new environment”.
The Lost Correspondent or "The Newspaper Man" is on the bottom on the bottom of Molinere Bay.
Politics:
Grenada is a small, beautiful island located in the Caribbean, rich with art and rebellious history. It rests between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, to the north of Trinidad and Tobago.
Christopher Columbus landed on the island in 1498, however, left. It remained the uncolonized home of the indigenous Carib people for more than a century. In the 17th Century, the French settled Grenada, bringing tens of thousands of African slaves to develop sugar plantations. Britain took the island in 1762, establishing sugar, cacao, and then nutmeg plantations. Independence came for Grenada 200 years later in 1974, marking freedom for one of the smallest independent countries in the Western Hemisphere.
The 107-page report by Human Rights Watch, “‘I Have to Leave to Be Me’: Discriminatory Laws against LGBT People in the Eastern Caribbean” details that relics of British colonial laws banning same-sex relations persist. The laws have broad latitude, are vaguely worded, and serve to legitimize discrimination and hostility toward LGBT people.