1. St Lucia depends on its clean coastal waters because fishing and tourism provide much of its income.

2. St Lucia is a dot on the world's map.

3. Then she recalled his reactions to what he'd labelled her prejudices in St Lucia, and stayed silent.

4. It was weeks since the night of thunder and lightning and losing her head in St Lucia.

5. Pamela Baptiste, a former consular officer at the high commission in St Lucia[http:///st. lucia.html], has lodged a claim of unfair dismissal.

6. Dean knocked out power on the islands of St. Lucia and Martinique. At least three deaths are being blamed on the storm.

7. The capital of St. Lucia, in the Windward Islands of the British West Indies. It was founded by the French in1650. Population, 50, 798.

8. Of the countries surveyed, St. Lucia made the biggest jump forward, going from 24.39% of collected blood coming from unpaid volunteers in 2002 to 83.05% in 2004.

9. Dean knocked out power on the islands of St. Lucia and Martinique.

10. Taiwan's foreign ministry says it is not pressuring St. Lucia to break ties with Beijing.

11. I was in St. Lucia back in January of this year.

12. The most sedentary nations were St. Lucia and the Cayman Islands(), with 58 percent of boys and 64 percent of girls spending at least three hours a day in sedentary activities.

13. China's foreign ministry warned St. Lucia today( Thursday) not to go ahead with the move and urged the Caribbean island to abide by its promise to respect Beijing's" one-China" principle.

14. St. Lucia as a romantic destination. The island gets plenty of visitors, including wedding parties.

15. An estimated 100 homes were flooded in St. Lucia, and a fishing village on the island's east coast was declared a disaster zone.

16. Hurricane Dean has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm. Dean knocked out power on the islands of St. Lucia and Martinique. At least three deaths are being blamed on the storm.

17. Hurricane Dean has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm. Dean knocked out power on the islands of St. Lucia and Martinique.

18. Beguine:a ballroom dance similar to the rumba, based on a dance of Martinique and St. Lucia.

19. The suburb of Yeronga (image lower left) also has evident regions of flooding, as does a park and golf course located along a bend in the Brisbane River to the south of St. Lucia (image center).

20. A modeling technique that includes ocean currents can give a broad picture of dispersing sea creatures, says Eric Treml of the University of Queensland in St. Lucia, Australia.