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Chicokid
August 10, 2007, 09:45 AM
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago has been ranked as the second among ten richest countries in the Caribbean with a $19,700 GDP per capita. The richest country in the region is the Bahamas with a $21,300 GDP per capita.

Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Dominican Republic, St Lucia, Jamaica, Cuba and Grenada were in the ten in descending order, according to information compiled and posted by website Aneki.com, an independent, privately operated website based in Montreal, Canada.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period. GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis.

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Manu
August 10, 2007, 08:44 PM
Where is BARBADOS? Bahamas was a shoe in

Virus
August 11, 2007, 01:37 PM
What exactly does Bahamas do so well.. beside tourism, or is that it?

Juliet
August 11, 2007, 01:46 PM
This is good news. Its a pity that all this wealth isnt trickling down to the average citizens of this country...

Manu
August 13, 2007, 06:52 AM
What exactly does Bahamas do so well.. beside tourism, or is that it?

That is exactly it... they do tourism well and all the natives get behind it. Very friendly people to tourists.

AngelsKiss
August 13, 2007, 06:24 PM
They also have off shore banking.

Manu
August 13, 2007, 07:28 PM
Paradise Island for the win.