Fishing in Calliaqua

Calliaqua is a coastal community, not far from Kingstown, with a population of about 1,200 people.Most of the land in Calliaqua and its environs is broken up into small holdings, which have traditionally been farmed.Today, however, the majority of residents are wage workers, and IlUch of the agricultural land is not worked.It was my impression that on11 a small percentage of the employed residents have secure tulltime jobs.Rather, many of the people find day wage work on road gangs or engage in part-time labor.Calliaqua, in terms of an island-wide system of stratification, can be considered to represent the middle and lower of the island's four classes.The middle clans in Calliaqua, (probably not more than 10% of the population) consists of shop-keepers and people with civil service appointments in Kingstown.Class lines are Dot rigidly drawn nor are they barriers to social interaction.However, this middle class group can be distinguished by their possession of cars, membership in the Anglican Church, sending their children to secondary school, or living in large cinder-block homes.