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  2. Barbados 'pauses' acquisition of former slavery plantation ...

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    Multiple generations of people were enslaved at the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Saint George, Barbados, a Caribbean nation that received at least 600,000 Africans between 1627 and 1833.

  3. Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of newspapers in Barbados - Wikipedia

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    Barbados Recorder. Barbados Standard. Barbados Times. The Beacon. Bridgetown Gazette[4] Caribbean Week. The General Intelligence. The Investigator. The Penny Paper.

  5. List of programs broadcast by Caribbean Broadcasting ...

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    C. CaribWorld Home Shopping - formed in 2004, it is the Caribbean region's first local home shopping programme. It was expanded to Trinidad and Tobago in 2005 and Jamaica the following year. The programme airs on CBC-TV on weekdays at 8.00 am, 11.00 am, and 3.00 pm. [ 1][ 2]

  6. Beryl forecast to become an 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 ...

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    June 30, 2024 at 8:41 PM. Hurricane Beryl has become an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm as it inches closer to the Windward Islands, bringing life-threatening winds and storm surge to the ...

  7. History of Barbados - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Hurricane Beryl morphs into record-breaking Cat 5 storm as it ...

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    July 1, 2024 at 5:13 AM. Hurricane Beryl intensified Monday night into what forecasters are calling a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm as it ripped off roofs, toppled trees and shut ...

  9. CBC TV 8 - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.cbc.bb. 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.