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The Constitution of Barbados is the supreme law under which Barbados is governed. [1] The Constitution provides a legal establishment of the Government of Barbados, as well as legal rights and responsibilities of the public and various other government officers. The Constitution which came into force in 1966 was amended in 1974, [2] 1980, 1981 ...
1979 commission. In 1979, a commission of inquiry known as the Cox Commission on the Constitution was charged with studying the feasibility of introducing a republican system. The Cox Commission came to the conclusion that Barbadians preferred to maintain the constitutional monarchy.
The monarchy of Barbados was a system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state of Barbados from 1966 to 2021. Barbados shared the sovereign with the other Commonwealth realms, with the country's monarchy being separate and legally distinct. The monarch's operational and ceremonial duties were mostly ...
Since the island country's independence in 1966, the economy of Barbados has been transformed from a low-income economy dependent upon sugar production into a high-income economy based on tourism and the offshore sector. Barbados went into a deep recession in the 1990s after 3 years of steady decline brought on by fundamental macroeconomic ...
Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) ( IATA: BGI, ICAO: TBPB) is an international airport at Seawell, Christ Church, Barbados, serving as the country's only port of entry by air. The airport is the only designated port of entry for persons arriving and departing by air in Barbados and operates as one of the major gateways to the Eastern ...
Ferdinand Paleologus ( Italian: Ferdinando Paleologo; June 1619 – 2 October 1670) was a 17th-century English-Italian freeholder, sugar or cotton planter and churchwarden and possibly one of the last living members of the Palaiologos dynasty, which had ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to its fall in 1453.
Afro-Caribbean, African diaspora. Statue of African-born slave revolt leader Bussa. Portrait of Barbadian Dr. Christopher James Davis. Black Barbadians or Afro-Barbadians are Barbadians of entirely or predominantly African descent . 92.4% of Barbados 's population is black and 3.1% is multiracial, based on estimates in 2010. [1]
Irish immigration to Barbados. Irish transport to Barbados dates back to the 1620s, when Irish people began arriving on the island. The majority were emigrants, indentures, and merchants, though with an unknown number of political and convict transportees during the 1650s [1] [2]