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Article: Carriacou, Grenada's smaller and less-known sibling, has easy-going charm. (Originated from Boston Globe)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- November 7, 1994
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HILLSBOROUGH, Carriacou _ Like much else on this easy-going backwater of an island, the takeoff and landing procedures at Carriacou Airport are very low tech and work just fine.
When a plane is about to arrive or depart, an exciting event that happens only a couple of times a day, two small boys pedal out on their bicycles to close the airport gates and shoo the goats off the runway, part of the island's main road, and the best paved part at that. The gates reopened, vehicular traffic _ much of it consisting of passenger-carrying private minibuses _ can resume its slow and bumpy progress around the 13-square-mile island.
Grenada's much smaller sibling island, Carriacou ...
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