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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 ...
Ralph Thorne is a Barbadian politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition since 2024. He was elected in 2018 as a candidate of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) for Christ Church South on 24 May 2018. [1] He later crossed the floor and became an independent in February 2024 [2] which made him the leader of the opposition upon defection as ...
Hurricane Elsa paralleling the west coast of Florida on July 6. Elsa's rain bands began to affect Florida at around 18:00 UTC on July 5 while moving over from Cuba. [121] As Elsa passed just west of Tampa Bay, impacts were minimal, aside from downed trees and some flooded roads. [122] Game 5 of the 2021 Stanley Cup Finals was not postponed as ...
December 1963 (radio) December 1964 (television) Official website. www .cbc .bb. The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC) is a public radio and television broadcaster, located in The Pine, St. Michael in Barbados. It was founded in 1963 as Radio Barbados. [1] The CBC falls under the ministry and jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Office. [2]
CBC Radio was introduced on 16 December 1963 as the first wireless radio station in Barbados. Previously, Barbados had a wired cable Rediffusion service from 1935 to 1997. CBC Radio was the only wireless radio station in Barbados until VOB 92.9 FM was introduced with former radio station Gospel 790 AM in 1981. It was known as "Radio Barbados ...
27 July – Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced on the Day of National Significance in Barbados that her cabinet had decided that Barbados would become a parliamentary republic by 30 November, and accepted the recommendations of the Forde Commission [1] 20 September – Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2021 was introduced to Parliament [2]
Mia Amor Mottley, SC, MP [2] (born 1 October 1965) is a Barbadian politician and attorney who has served as the eighth prime minister of Barbados since 2018 and as Leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the first woman to hold either position. She is also Barbados' first prime minister under its republican system ...
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 from West Africa. Several black slave codes were implemented in the late-17th century which resulted in several slave rebellion attempts, however none was ...