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The Nation Publishing Co. Limited is the publisher of the Nation Newspaper, which is the dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados. Co-founded by Harold Hoyte and Fred Gollop, it was first established in 1973. [1] the Daily Nation is printed daily in colour and distributed at many points around the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados was a part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (). [3] The outbreak was identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, [4] declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, [5] and recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. [6]
Barbados Recorder. Barbados Standard. Barbados Times. The Beacon. Bridgetown Gazette[4] Caribbean Week. The General Intelligence. The Investigator. The Penny Paper.
Barbados (UK: / bɑːrˈbeɪdɒs / bar-BAY-doss; US: / bɑːrˈbeɪdoʊs / bar-BAY-dohss; locally / bɑːrˈbeɪdəs / bar-BAY-dəss) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
The island was briefly claimed by the Spanish Empire who saw trees with a beard like feature (hence the name Barbados), and then by Portugal from 1532 to 1620. The island was an English and later a British colony from 1625 until 1966. Sugar cane cultivation in Barbados began in the 1640s, which saw the increasing importation of black slaves ...
Main article: COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados. Deaths by Age and Gender (7 deaths; most recent on 29 April) Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
A day of recognition for Errol Barrow, the Father of the Nation. [3] Good Friday: Date varies: 29 March 2024 Commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter Monday: Date varies: 1 April 2024 Day after Easter Sunday. National Heroes' Day: 28 April 28 April 2024 Celebrated in honour of the ten Barbadian National Heroes. Labour Day: 1 May ...
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. Many of the country's legislative practices derive from the unwritten conventions of, and precedents set by ...