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Article: 100 rum shops help keep Carriacou happy
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 14, 1989
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HILLSBOROUGH, Carriacou There are more than 100 rum shops and one
gasoline station on this tiny island in the Grenadines. Those
statistics may suggest that the 6,000 residents of this speck on the
map in the Windward Islands usually are too smashed to drive, but
that's not the case.
"There is less drunkenness here than on most of the other
Caribbean islands," says Oliver Bullen, owner-manager of Carriacou's
largest hotel. "A lot of people drink a lot of rum. But apart from
the occasional tourist, you seldom see a drunken person."
You don't see an unhappy person, either, or anybody in a hurry
except the rare yahoo in a car or van bent on sustaining his imagined
macho image by hurtling ...