Fly in from former British colonies like Dominica or St Lucia and Guadeloupe looks a model of prosperity and, normally, good order.
Amid national mourning, his funeral will be held at Kensington Oval, the island's iconic cricket ground.In a sometimes turbulent Caribbean, Barbados, with a population of 280,000, has been a model of prosperity and good governance.
Yet Mr Nazarbayev is genuinely popular, and despite Kazakhstan's problems, he has overseen an economy that is a model of prosperity compared with the basket cases elsewhere in Central Asia.Mr Nazarbayev once called his rule an "enlightened dictatorship".
As she worked to dig out her family's belongings from a flood of raw sewage that swallowed her ramshackle house, a scowling Maria de la Luz recalled the years when the government promised to turn her neighborhood into a shining model of prosperity.
While Mao was inflicting the Great Leap Forward on mainland China, Chiang was instituting a widely admired program of land reform on Taiwan, and today the raucously democratic island is often looked to in the People's Republic as a model of prosperity.
Call for sustainable peace Once regarded as a model of prosperity and peace, Côte d'Ivoire has slipped into internal strife with deep divisions along ethnic, political and religious lines.
Now they are a model of organized prosperity.
During his political career he was credited with guiding the province through the Great Depression and shaping it into a model of economic prosperity, in part owing to the discovery of a major oil field at Leduc in 1947 and his innovative rules concerning the proper management of petroleum reserves.
The northern Mexican city of Monterrey, once a model of industrial prosperity and relatively insulated from the drugs war that has gripped the country for five years, was reeling yesterday after gang members set fire to a two-storey casino in the city's centre killing at least 50 people trapped inside.
As fears grow that Slovenia could follow Cyprus and become the sixth euro zone country to seek a bailout, his rise and fall have come to symbolize the way easy and cheap credit, combined with Balkan-style crony capitalism and corporate mismanagement, fueled a banking crisis that has unhinged a country previously praised as a regional model of peaceful prosperity.
