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Barbados is an island in the East Lesser Antilles
in the East West Indies. It is a British colony whose capital is
Bridgetown. It is 161 sq. miles with a 1960 population of 231,785.
Those from Barbados call themselves Bajans.
   (WUD, 1994, p.118)(SFC, 4/25/98, p.E3)
1625Â Â Â Â Â Â An
English ship claimed Barbados for King James I. In 2021 the English
colony became an independent republic.
   (Reuters, 11/24/21)
1627Â Â Â Â Â Â Barbados was uninhabited
as the first English settlers arrived. Sugarcane fields later began
to cover the island, a 14 x 21 mile stack of coral terraces.
  Â
(http://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/Barbados/history/)(NH, 12/96,
p.35)(Econ, 6/16/12, p.91)
1650Â Â Â Â Â Â St. Nicholas Abbey was
built as a plantation house in the Jacobean style.
   (SFEC, 2/15/98, p.T10)
1668Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 23, Jews of Barbados
were forbidden to engage in retail trade.
   (MC, 10/23/01)
1751Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 28, George Washington.
As a young man of 19, George Washington accompanied his sick older
half-brother Lawrence to Barbados in 1751. Lawrence had been advised
that the island’s climate might help restore his ill health. The
brothers left Virginia on September 28 and arrived at Bridgetown,
Barbados, November 3. George, who survived the smallpox while in
Barbados, left Lawrence on December 21 and arrived back in Virginia
on January 28, 1752.
   (HNQ, 12/16/99)
1855Â Â Â Â Â Â Barbados built its
Glendairy Prison.
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Glendairy_Prison)
1958 Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 3, The British
created the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor
general. The federation lasted to 1962. It included Barbados,
Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago and the Windward and Leeward Islands.
   (HN, 1/3/99)(WUD, 1994, p.1623)
1962Â Â Â Â Â Â May 31, The West Indies
Federation, made up of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and
the Leeward and Windward Islands, broke up after 4 years following
Jamaica’s passage of a referendum to end the alliance.
   (Econ, 6/2/12, p.47)
1966Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 30, The former British
colony of Barbados became independent.
   (SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 11/30/97)
1970Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, Thor Heyerdahl
(1914-2002), Norwegian anthropologist, left Morocco aboard Ra II, a
papyrus reed boat, and sailed 3,270 nautical miles across the
Atlantic to Barbados in 57 days [see Jul 12].
   (SFC, 4/19/02,
p.A2)(www.spiritus-temporis.com/thor-heyerdahl/)
1970Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 12, Thor Heyerdahl,
Norwegian ethnographer, crossed the Atlantic Ocean in "Ra" and
docked in Barbados.
   (www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/kontiki.htm)
1970s      Barbados established its
financial industry with help from the IMF.
   (Econ, 2/24/07, SR p.6)
1984Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 15, Police raided the
vacation home of Paul and Linda McCartney (1941-1998) following a
tip. Both were arrested on possession of cannabis.
  Â
(http://leftofcentrist.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 2, Barbados, Trinidad
and Tobago, Guyana and Jamaica reported plans to establish the
Caribbean Court of Justice in 1999 and planned to change their
constitutions to free themselves of the British Privy Council. The
effort was pushed to establish the death penalty.
   (SFC, 7/4/98, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 11, In Barbados
officials at a conference on AIDS in the Caribbean pledged $120
million to fight the disease.
   (SFC, 9/13/00, p.A13)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 4, In Barbados
delegations from Russia, Cuba, South Africa, Colombia and France's
overseas territories abandoned an anti-racism conference that voted
to exclude whites saying they'll have no part in discrimination. The
walkout, on the fourth day of the six-day African and African
Descendants World Conference Against Racism, came after a day of
negotiations failed. Some 200 delegates had voted Wednesday for
whites and Asians to leave the deliberations, saying slavery was too
painful a subject to discuss in front of non-Africans.
   (AP, 10/5/02)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, In Barbados PM
Owen Arthur's governing Labor Party won elections in a landslide
victory that secured the party 23 seats in the legislature. The
opposition Democratic Labor Party won seven seats in the 30-seat
Parliament.
   (AP, 5/22/03)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 9, Hurricane Ivan grew
into the deadliest of storms overnight, packing winds of 160 mph as
it made a beeline for Jamaica after pummeling Grenada, Barbados and
other islands, causing at least 20 deaths. Police in Grenada battled
looters.
   (AP, 9/9/04)(WSJ, 9/9/04, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/10/04,
p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 13, In Barbados a
Canadian woman drowned in floodwaters from Hurricane Ivan. At least
372 homes were damaged or destroyed. Most hotels are open, though
some sustained damage. The airport is open. A cruise ship terminal
was damaged but quickly reopened.
   (AP, 9/14/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 4, Tiger Woods married
Swedish model Elin Nordegren in Barbados.
   (AP, 10/5/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 30, Inmates of
Barbados' lone prison set fires and battled guards and each other
for a second day, leaving one prisoner dead and eight injured. The
replacement of Glendairy Prison took two years to build at a cost of
$144m.
   (AP, 3/30/05)(Econ, 3/12/15, p.34)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 8, In Barbados leaders
of Caribbean nations held a summit to discuss health care
cooperation and cultural exchanges, but a major focus was on Cuba
and its thorny relationship with the United States.
   (AP, 12/08/05)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 8, In Barbados the new
Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice, in its first death
penalty ruling, dismissed an appeal by the Barbados government that
sought to restore execution orders for two convicted murderers.
   (AP, 11/8/06)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan, In Barbados the
George Washington House and Museum was completed following an 8-year
restoration project. The site stood just outside Bridgetown.
   (SSFC, 2/18/07, p.G2)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 15, Barbados held
elections. The opposition swept to power, winning at least 20 of the
30 seats in Barbados' legislature. David Thompson led the Democratic
Labor Party back to power and inherited a public debt equal to 88%
of GDP.
   (AP, 1/16/08)(Econ, 1/19/08, p.40)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 15, In Barbados 13
Caribbean countries approved a new Economic partnership Agreement
(EPA) with the EU.
   (Econ, 10/18/08, p.50)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 3, In Barbados 2 men
burst into a clothing store in downtown Bridgetown and demanded
money before setting the building on fire and killing at least 6
people. On Sep 13 Police said 2 men, Renaldo Anderson Alleyne (21)
and Jamar Bynoe (19), had been arrested and charged with six counts
of murder, aggravated burglary, and arson in the attack. The island
has not executed anyone since 1984. On June 1, 2011, Alleyne pleaded
guilty to six counts of manslaughter. Bynoe faced similar charges
but his case had not yet gone to trial.
   (AP, 9/5/10)(AP, 9/13/10)(AP, 6/2/11)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 23, Barbados PM David
Thompson (48) died following a struggle with pancreatic cancer.
Thompson had become PM of the Caribbean nation of 270,000 people in
Jan 2008.
   (AP, 10/23/10)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 6, In Barbados about
3,000 chanting protesters took to the streets of the capital to join
a union-led rally against the recent dismissals of about a dozen
public workers. PM Freundel Stuart said disruptive street protests
were not in the best interests of the island's 28,000 public
workers.
   (AP, 7/6/15)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 5, The European Union
put 17 non-EU countries on a blacklist of those it deems guilty of
unfairly offering tax avoidance schemes. They Included: American
Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam, South Korea, Macau,
Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, St. Lucia,
Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates. Over
40 more were put on a "grey list" to be monitored until they are
fully committed to reforms.
   (AP, 12/5/17)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 23, European Union
finance ministers agreed to remove eight jurisdictions from the
bloc's blacklist of tax havens, one month after the list was set up.
Barbados, Grenada, South Korea, Macao, Mongolia, Tunisia and the
United Arab Emirates joined Panama as jurisdictions delisted
following commitments made at a high political level to remedy EU
concerns.
   (Reuters, 1/23/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, Barbados elected
Mia Mottley (52), its first female prime minister, as the opposition
inflicted a crushing defeat on the ruling Democratic Labour Party
(DLP), winning all the seats in the Caribbean island's parliament.
   (Reuters, 5/25/18)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 12, European Union
governments adopted a broadened blacklist of tax havens, adding the
United Arab Emirates and British and Dutch overseas territories in a
revamp that tripled the number of listed jurisdictions. The new list
added Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, Barbados, Belize, the British
overseas territory of Bermuda, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Oman, the
United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu and Dominica. The EU blacklist
originally comprised 17 jurisdictions, including the UAE, but shrank
to five after most listed states committed to change their tax
rules.
   (Reuters, 3/12/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 28, In Barbados
Natalie Crichlow (44) from London, on a visit to her disabled
brother, was found dead. Her family said an intruder had entered the
house and set her alight in her bed. Police later said there was no
sign of an intruder, and there was no flammable liquid found on her
clothes. A postmortem showed she died from an infection, following
serious burns.
   (The Telegraph, 8/16/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 27, Residents of
Barbados and other Caribbean islands braced for heavy rains as
tropical storm Dorian churned west-northwest, with officials
cautioning that it could approach hurricane strength.
   (Reuters, 8/27/19)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul, Unemployment in
Barbados was estimated at close to 40% as COVID-19 kept tourists
from visiting.
   (Econ., 7/25/20, p.23)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 15, Sandra Mason
(b.1949), the Governor-General of Barbados, opened Parliament and
proposed the abolition of her job. She pronounced the words of PM
Mia Motley: "Barbadians want a Barbadian head of state."
   (Econ., 9/19/20, p.34)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 31, The government of
Barbados scuppered "Old Year's Night" fireworks parties and
extended a curfew from 9pm to 5an to contain a surge in coronavirus
infections.
   (Econ., 1/9/21, p.29)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, Digital cash called
DCash, created by Barbados-based fintech company Bitt, became
available in St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada and St. Kitts
and Nevis.
   (SFC, 4/9/21, p.B2)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 2, Elsa, the 1st
hurricane of the Atlantic season, hit Barbados and then St. Vincent
and the Grenadines as it headed for Haiti, the Dominican Republic
and Florida.
   (SFC, 7/3/21, p.A2)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 11, The US government
said it will deliver nearly 837,000 Pfizer vaccines to Caribbean
nations. The Bahamas will receive 397,000 doses; Trinidad &
Tobago will receive more than 305,000 doses; Barbados will receive
70,200, doses; St. Vincent and the Grenadines will get 35,100;
Antigua will get 17,550; St. Kitts & Nevis will get 11,700.
   (SFC, 8/12/21, p.A5)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 21, Mexico's Financial
Intelligence Unit said it has launched a lawsuit in Miami against
former security chief Garcia Luna and a network of 39 companies and
trusts run by him and his associates to hide assets. Luna, who is
facing a lawsuit from Mexico over illegally obtained assets,
allegedly hid some $250 million stolen from the treasury in bank
accounts in Barbados and the United States between 2012 and 2018.
   (Reuters, 9/23/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 13, The Pan American
Health Organization (PAHO) said Barbados is reporting the highest
number of COVID cases and deaths since the pandemic started, with a
five-fold increase in COVID infections over the last month.
   (Reuters, 10/13/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 20, Barbados elected
Sandra Mason (72) as its first-ever president to replace Britain's
Queen Elizabeth as head of state in a decisive step toward shedding
the Caribbean island's colonial past.
   (Reuters, 10/21/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 30, Barbados removed
Britain's Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a
republic, as it severed imperial ties some 400 years after English
ships first reached the Caribbean island. President-elect Sandra
Mason replaced Queen Elizabeth.
   (Reuters, 11/30/21)
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