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- Signing of EPA with Europe delayed
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - There is to be a further delay in the proposed signing in Barbados of the Caribbean region's Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), originally expected before June 30. Conflicting dates offered by the
- African immigrants flown home
SEVERAL persons from Nigeria and Ghana who were left stranded after landing in Barbados aboard a Ghana International Airways flight in February reportedly were flown back to their homeland yesterday. Approximately 140 African nationals including Ghanians
- Barbadian PM concludes China tour
SHANGHAI, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson left Shanghai for London Friday morning, wrapping up his five-day official visit to China. Thompson started his visit from Beijing on May 5 as a guest of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
- Gov't to repatriate stranded Ghanaians from Barbados
The Ghanaians stranded in the Caribbean island of Barbados are expected back into the country soon. The Ghanaians, in a group of 153 tourists, who went to the island on the maiden flight of the Ghana International Airlines (GIA) on February 1, 2008 and
- Barbados defeats Mexico
This is Mexicos first ever RWC qualifying match, and looked set to record another upset over Barbados, ranked 60th in the International Rugby Board Rankings. Mexico were leading 18-20 minutes before the match was scheduled to end. But Barbados converted
- Africans threaten action
THIRTY-FOUR AFRICANS held at the Barbados Defence Force's (BDF) military base at Paragon, Christ Church, have threatened to go on a hunger strike if they are not returned home by Sunday. They are also demanding freedom of movement, charging that contrary
- Prime Minister visits stranded Africans
Prime Minister David Thompson says a full-scale investigation will be launched into the circumstances that led to several Ghanaians being stranded in Barbados. He made the comments after visiting them at the secure facility in paragon, where they are
- Barbados signs tax treaty with Mexico
Barbados intends to move closer to Latin America on trade and other economic matters. That indication came from Prime Minister David Thompson who said while in Miami on Monday that his Government saw the Spanish and Portuguese speaking nations of the
- Govt to care for, return stranded Africans
By Nicholas Cox Seventeen of the approximately 96 citizens of Ghana and Nigeria who have been stranded in Barbados since February 15 are now being housed at the Paragon base in Christ Church. Stressing that Government intended to provide the basic needs
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The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the 20th century. The gradual introduction of social and political reforms in the 1940s and 1950s led to complete independence from the UK in 1966. In the 1990s, tourism and manufacturing surpassed the sugar industry in economic importance.
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