Barbados is an island nation situated in the Lesser Antilles. It was colonised by the Spanish and the Portuguese before being claimed for James I of England in 1625. There was a rapid influx of enslaved people from West Africa in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century to provide labour for the sugar plantations. The island gained its independence from the UK in 1966 and in 2021 became the first Caribbean Realm since Trinidad and Tobago (in 1976) to make the transition to republican status. Current population c. 280,000.
Dr Marcia Burrowes
Dr. Marcia Burrowes is Lecturer in Cultural Studies, founder of the Cultural Studies course and Deputy Dean of the...
David Comissiong
David Comissiong is the Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM. He is the former head of the Barbadian government’s Commission...
Alissandra Cummins
Alissandra Cummins is Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society. An art historian, educator and...
Dr Natalie Dietrich Jones
Dr Dietrich Jones is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at...
Dr Pamela Franklin
Dr Pamela Franklin was born in the early 1960s in Brixton to parents of Barbadian heritage. Her career as a IT...
Martin Forde KC
Martin Forde KC was born in the UK to parents of St Lucian and Barbadian heritage. He has a practice in 1 Crown...
Deborah Grandison
Deborah Grandison was born and registered in the United Kingdom in 1973, the year the Immigration Act 1971 came into...
Kaye Hall
Kaye Hall is the Education and Community Outreach Officer at the Barbados Museum & Historical Society (BMHS). With...
Guy Hewitt
Reverend Guy Hewitt was the High Commissioner of Barbados in London from 2014 until 2018. He is an outspoken critic of...
Buddy Larrier
Reverend Buddy Larrier has been an active mental health campaigner for decades. He was a bus driver but was detained...
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Hastings, Barbados
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British High Commission Barbados
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The Barbados Museum & Historical Society
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The Barbados Museum & Historical Society
The Barbados Museum & Historical Society
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The Barbados Museum & Historical Society
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British High Commission Barbados
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Barbados Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Barbados Leaders
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Barbados Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
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Barbados Beach
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