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Barbados Agricultural Reporter; Barbados Gazette - Barbados' first newspaper, established 1731. Barbados Globe & Colonial Advocate; Barbados Mercury [4] Barbados Recorder; Barbados Standard; Barbados Times; The Beacon; Bridgetown Gazette [4] Caribbean Week; The General Intelligence; The Investigator; The Penny Paper; Pepper Punch; Saturday ...
The Nation Publishing Company also publishes a weekly youth magazine called Attitude and a visitors' booklet called Explore Barbados. In 2004, a weekly Canadian print version was created, as a joint venture with the Carib-Cana Media Inc. (CCMI), to service a growing clientele in Canada for weekly news from Barbados. The Canadian version was ...
In September 2020, the Barbados Labour Party government of Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced in its Throne Speech that Barbados would become a republic by November 2021. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The Barbados Labour Party held a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Barbadian Parliament (including all but one lower house seat), enough to approve a ...
Barbados will call for creation of a new World Bank finance facility to provide emergency liquidity to climate-vulnerable countries in a third version of the Bridgetown Initiative backed by many ...
Last year on Nov. 30, the Caribbean country of Barbados made a huge power play by severing ties with Britain The post Celebrating Barbados’ first year as a republic appeared first on TheGrio.
In 2012 Republic Bank, which had accumulated a 65% stake in Barbados National Bank, renamed it Republic Bank (Barbados). Also in 2012, RB acquired 8.79% of the shares of HFC Bank (Ghana). [4] In 2013 RB acquired the remaining shares in Republic Bank (Barbados). Republic Bank delisted the shares of BNB from the Barbados Stock Exchange at end ...
Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the Parliament. The political system is dominated by two main parties, the Barbados Labour Party and the Democratic Labour Party. The judiciary of Barbados is independent of the executive and the legislature. Jurisprudence is based on English common law.
The government has been chosen by elections since 1961 elections, when Barbados achieved full self-governance.Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely (such as the Executive Council), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.