St. Lucia's Cultural Traditions

i. the speaker's left. If the flag is displayed on a staff elsewhere than on a platform or chancel, it should be at the right of the audience or congregation as they face the speaker. It should not cover a speaker's desk or be draped in front of a platform.
THE FLAG IN A PARADE
When carried with another flag or flags, the flag of Saint Lucia should be held on the marching right or in front of the centre of the line of flags. When the flag is passing in a parade or in a review or during a ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag, all persons present should face the flag and stand at attention.
National Flower
The virulent red of the rose still speaks to many a Saint Lucian; so does the simple marguerite flower (gomphrena). Between them spins a tale of more than two centuries, and despite imperialism, domination, and cultural invasion, the twin flower festivals of LA ROSE and LA MARGUERITE still persist, a testament to resilience.
Where, in some countries, the population may be divided into classes and castes, in the context of St. Lucia's cultural traditions, there exists two "Societies", ROSES and MARGUERITES (Bachelor's Button).

The ROSES and
The shantwels are mostly female, but there are sometimes a number of male shantwels. The shantwel leads the song with the other members of the group acting as chorus in a call-and-response pattern. Instrumentation includes any combination of violin, banjo, quatro, guitar, shak-shak, baha, and drums. The songs and dances associated with the societies are many, but there is much more variation and spontaneity at "séances" than at the grand fête when the significance of the occasion demands more discipline. At a séance one can witness dances like the mapa, and the gwan won, while grande fête dancing is traditionally limited to quadrilles, belair, mazurka and other figure