Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 

1762 - 1877                                1877 - 1907                            1907 - 29 Nov 1912                          29 Nov 1912 - 1940                              1940 - 3 Jan 1958                            1958 - 27 Oct 1975                 27 Oct 1975 - 27 Oct 1979                     27 Oct 1979 - Mar 1985                    Mar 1985 - 22 Oct 1985                   Adopted 22 Oct 1985   Map of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Hear National Anthem "St. Vincent! Land So Beautiful" Text of National Anthem Adopted 1967 Constitution (27 Oct 1979) Capital: Kingstown  Currency: East Caribbean Dollar (XCD)  National Holiday: 27 Oct (1979) Independence Day Population: 118,149 (2007) GDP: $342 million (2002) Exports: $37 million (2004) Imports: $225 million (2004) Ethnic groups: black 65.5%, mulatto 23.5%, East Indian 5.5%, white 3.5%, black-Amerindian 2% (1999) Total Police and Paramilitary Forces: 634 (1992) Merchant marine: 589 ships (2006) Religions: Protestant 57.6% (of which Anglican 47%, Seventh-Day Adventist), unaffiliated Protestant 20.6%, Roman Catholic 10.7%, Hindu 3.3%, Muslim 1.5%, other and non-religious 6.3% (1995) International Organizations/Treaties: ACP, APM, C, Caricom, CDB, ENMOD, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (subscriber), ITU, ITUC, KP, MIGA, NAM, NPT, OAS, OECS, OPANAL, OPCW, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCC, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WTO Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Chronology 22 Jan 1498                Discovered and claimed for Spain by Christopher                              Columbus, named Isla de San Vicente. 1627 - 1636                Claimed by England, unsettled. 1672                       Claimed by England, unsettled. 1673 - 1762                Neutral territory (as agreed by England                              and France). Feb 1762                   British occupation. 10 Feb 1763                British colony (subordinated to Grenada). 1776                       British crown colony. 1779 -  3 Sep 1783         French occupation. 1833 -  1 Jan 1960         Part of the Windward Islands colony (see Grenada).  3 Jan 1958 - 31 May 1962  Part of the Federation of the West Indies                               (see Trinidad and Tobago). 27 Oct 1969                Associated state 27 Oct 1979                Independence (St. Vincent and the Grenadines).

Governors
1762                       Robert Monckton                    (b. 1726 - d. 1782)
1762 - 1763                Robert Melville                    (b. 1723 - d. 1809)
1763 - 1776                the governors of South Caribbean
                           Islands (see under Grenada)
Lieutenant governors
1763 - 1764                George Maddison                    (d. 1783)
1764 - 1766                Joseph Higginson
1766                       Lauchlin McLean
1766 - 1772                Ulysses FitzMaurice
1772 - 1776                Valentin Morris
Governors
1776 - 1779                Valentin Morris
1779                       Marie-Charles, marquis du Chilleau (b. 1734 - d. 1794)
1779 - 1781                Dumontet
1781 - Mar 1782            Duplessis 
Mar 1782 - 1783            de Feydeau (interim)
1783 - 1787                Edmund Lincoln
 2 Apr 1787 - 1798         James Seton
 2 Mar 1798 - 1802         William Bentinck                   (b. 1764 - d. 1813)
1802 - 1806                Henry William Bentinck
1806 - 1808                George Beckwith                    (b. 1753 - d. 1823)
14 Nov 1808 - 1829         Charles Brisbane                   (b. 1769 - d. 1829)
1829 - 1831                William John Struth (acting) 
10 Jan 1831 - 1833         George Fitzgerald Hill             (b. 1763 - d. 1839)
Lieutenant governors
 4 May 1833 - 1842         George Tyler
 3 Jan 1842 - 1845         Sir Richard Doherty
15 Oct 1845 - 1853         John Campbell
10 Jan 1853 - 1854         Richard Graves MacDonell           (b. 1814 - d. 1881)
29 Dec 1854 - 1861         Edward John Eyre                   (b. 1815 - d. 1901)
20 May 1861 - 1864         Anthony Musgrave                   (b. 1828 - d. 1888)
                             (acting to 10 May 1862)
 6 Sep 1864 - 1871         George Berkeley                    (b. 1819 - d. 1905)
 3 Jun 1871 - 1875         William Hepburn Rennie             (d. 1874)
 3 Feb 1875 - 1880         George Dundas                      (b. 1819 - d. 1880)
1880 - 1886                Augustus Frederick Gore            (b. 1826 - d. 1887)
Administrators
1886 - 1889                Robert Baxter Llewelyn             (b. 1845 - d. 1919)
1889 - 1893                Irwin Charles Maling               (b. 1841 - d. 1918)
1893 - 1895                John Hartley Sandwith              (b. 1846 - d. 1895)
1895 - 1901                Harry Langhorne Thompson           (b. 1857/58 - d. 1902)
May 1901 - 1909            Edward John Cameron                (b. 1858 - d. 1947)
1909 - 1915                Charles Gideon Murray              (b. 1877 - d. 1951)
1915                       Anthony De Freitas (acting)        (b. 1869 - d. 19..)
1915 - 1923                Reginald Popham Lobb               (b. 1874 - d. 1950)
1923 - 1929                Robert Walter                      (b. 1873? - d. 1959)
1929 - 1933                Herbert Walter Peebles             (b. 1877 - d. 1955)
1933 - 1936                Arthur Francis Grimble             (b. 1888 - d. 1956)
Jun 1936 - 1938            Arthur Alban Wright                (b. 1887 - d. 1967)
1938 - 1941                William Bain Gray                  (b. 1886 - d. 1949)
1941 - 1944                Alexander Elder Beattie            (b. 1888 - d. 1951)
1944 - 1948                Ronald Herbert Garvey              (b. 1903 - d. 1991)
1948 - 1955                Walter Fleming Coutts              (b. 1912 - d. 1988)
1955 - 1961                Alexander Falconer Giles           (b. 1915 - d. 1989)
1961 - 1966                Samuel Horatio Graham              (b. 1912 - d. 1999)
1966 - Jan 1967            John Lionel Chapman                (b. 1910 - d. ....)
Jan 1967 - 27 Oct 1969     Hywel George                       (b. 1924)
Governors
27 Oct 1969 - Oct 1970     Hywel George                       (s.a.)
Oct 1970 - 1976            Rupert John                        (b. 1916 - d. 1996)
                             (from 1971, Sir Rupert John) 
1976 - 27 Oct 1979         Sidney Douglas Gun-Munro           (b. 1916 - d. 2007)
                             (from 1977, Sir Sidney Douglas Gun-Munro) 
Queen¹ 
27 Oct 1979 -              the Queen of the United Kingdom
Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)
27 Oct 1979 - 28 Feb 1985  Sir Sidney Douglas Gun-Munro       (s.a.)
28 Feb 1985 - 29 Feb 1988  Joseph Lambert Eustace             (b. 1908 - d. 1996)
                             (from 1985, Sir Joseph Lambert Eustace) 
29 Feb 1988 - 20 Sep 1989  Henry Harvey Williams (acting)     (b. 1917 - d. 2004)
20 Sep 1989 -  1 Jun 1996  David Emmanuel Jack                (b. 1918 - d. 1998)
                             (from 1991, Sir David Emmanuel Jack)
 1 Jun 1996 -  3 Jun 2002  Sir Charles James Antrobus         (b. 1933 - d. 2002)
 3 Jun 2002 -  2 Sep 2002  Monica Dacon (f) (acting)          (b. 1934)
 2 Sep 2002 -              Frederick Nathaniel Ballantyne     (b. 1936)
                             (from Nov 2002, Sir Frederick Nathaniel Ballantyne)

Chief ministers
1956 - 19 May 1967         Ebenezer Theodore Joshua           (b. 1908 - d. 1991)  PPP
19 May 1967 - 27 Oct 1969  Robert Milton Cato                 (b. 1915 - d. 1997)  ULP
Premiers
27 Oct 1969 - Apr 1972     Robert Milton Cato (1st time)      (s.a.)               ULP
Apr 1972 -  8 Dec 1974     James Fitz-Allen Mitchell          (b. 1931)            NDP
                             (1st time) 
 8 Dec 1974 - 27 Oct 1979  Robert Milton Cato (2nd time)      (s.a.)               ULP
Prime ministers
27 Oct 1979 - 30 Jul 1984  Robert Milton Cato                 (s.a.)               ULP
30 Jul 1984 - 27 Oct 2000  James Fitz-Allen Mitchell          (s.a.)               NDP
                             (from Jan 1995, Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell)
                             (2nd time)
27 Oct 2000 - 29 Mar 2001  Arnhim Ulric Eustace               (b. 1944)            NDP
29 Mar 2001 -              Ralph Everard Gonsalves            (b. 1946)            ULP

  ¹Full style of the ruler: "By the Grace of God, Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth."

Territorial Dispute: Joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea.

Party abbreviations: NDP = New Democratic Party (conservative); ULP = Unity Labour Party (social-democratic);
- Former parties: PPP = People's Political Party