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United States Naval Facility, Barbados. Coordinates: 13°18′16″N 59°38′57″W. Naval Facility Barbados also showing the Harrison Point Lighthouse. Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Barbados, TWI, in commission 1957 to 1979, was the most southern of the Atlantic Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) shore terminals. It had the distinction making the ...
Owen Arthur. Owen Seymour Arthur PC (17 October 1949 – 27 July 2020) [5] [6] was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. [6] He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1 August 1993 to 6 September 1994 ...
CBC TV 8. CBC TV 8 ( 8PX-TV) is a television station owned and operated by public broadcaster Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation in Barbados. It is the only legally licensed terrestrial television station in Barbados and is owned by the Government of Barbados; [1] its studios are located in The Pine, Saint Michael.
Hundreds of Tui passengers have spent the night trying to sleep at Barbados airport after their flight home to London Gatwick was cancelled.. Tui flight TOM21 from the Caribbean island to Gatwick ...
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.
Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several leaders ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Barbados was a part of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 . 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 ...
The Constitution (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2021 is an act that amended the Constitution of Barbados to replace the Monarchy of Barbados as the country's Head of State with the office of the President of Barbados thereby transitioning its form of governance from a monarchy to a republic. Under the Act all of the functions previously performed by ...