Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies,in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America,and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands. It lies on the boundary of the South American and Caribbean plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
Owen Seymour Arthur was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1 August 1993 to 6 September 1994 and from 23 October 2010 to 21 February 2013.
Dame Billie Antoinette Miller,DA,OOC is a Barbadian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister. Miller is a member of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).
Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford,KA,PC was a Barbadian politician. He served as the fourth prime minister of Barbados from 1987 to 1994,and later served as Barbados' first resident ambassador in Beijing,China,from 2010 to 2013.
Mia Amor Mottley,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,following constitutional changes she introduced that abolished the country's constitutional monarchy.
Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.
Kausea Natano is a politician who served as the Prime Minister of Tuvalu from 19 September 2019 to 26 February 2024. He represented Funafuti as a Member of Parliament. He was first elected in the 2002 Tuvaluan general election and served as an MP until he was unseated in the 2024 Tuvaluan general election.
Relations between Barbados and China began on 4 September 1967 with Barbados recognizing the People's Republic of China from 30 May 1977,just over one decade after the eastern Caribbean island nation's independence from the United Kingdom.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aimed to reducing poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by rigorous,scientific evidence. J-PAL funds,provides technical support to,and disseminates the results of randomized controlled trials evaluating the efficacy of social interventions in health,education,agriculture,and a range of other fields. As of 2020,the J-PAL network consisted of 500 researchers and 400 staff,and the organization's programs had impacted over 400 million people globally. The organization has regional offices in seven countries around the world,and is headquartered near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,Massachusetts.
Giorgos Papakonstantínou,is a Greek economist and politician and former Minister for the Environment,Energy and Climate Change of Greece and former Minister for Finance. Following expulsion from his party PASOK,he received a one-year suspended sentence for misdemeanours over his handling of the infamous “Lagarde list”. The court found him guilty of removing the names of three relatives of about 2,000 Greeks with money overseas. He is currently a professor at the European University Institute.
The Constitution of Barbados is the supreme law under which Barbados is governed. 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 1974,1980,1981,1985,1989,1990,1992,1995,2000,2002,2003,2005,2007,2009,2010,2018,2019,2020 and 2021. The 1966 document succeeds several other documents concerning administration of Barbados. One of them,the Barbados Charter,is discussed in the present Constitution's Preamble. Prior statutes were created for the administration of Barbados as a colony. As a former English and later British colony,the Constitution is similar to those of other former Commonwealth realms,yet distinctly different in the spirit of the Statute of Westminster.
Maria João RodriguesGOIH is a Portuguese academic and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament. She was Vice-President of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) from 2014 until 2019,and since 2017 she is also President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS),succeeding Italian politician Massimo d'Alema.
The Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS) is a law school in Trinidad and Tobago.
Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles KA is a Barbadian historian. He is the current vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission.
Prof. The Honourable Bishnodat Persaud CHB,Ph.D.,FRSA was a Guyanese economist who served as Alcan Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies,and Director of Economic Affairs,Commonwealth Secretariat. In November 2013 he was awarded The Companion of Honour in the Barbados Independence Day Honours List for distinguished national achievement and merit for his outstanding contribution to the regional and international public service.
Richard L. Sealy is a Barbadian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism and International Transport in the Cabinet of Barbados from 23 October 2010 to 25 May 2018 He was replaced by Marsha K. Caddle. He is also the Chairperson of the Democratic Labour Party Member of the House of Assembly of Barbados for the St Michael South Central constituency.
Mohamed Irfaan Ali is a Guyanese politician serving as the tenth and current president of Guyana since 2020. A member of the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C),he previously served as the minister of Housing and Water from 2009 to 2015. He is the first Muslim to hold office,and is the second Muslim head of state in the Americas after Noor Hassanali of Trinidad and Tobago.
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC,more commonly referred to as COP27,was the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference,held from 6 November until 20 November 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh,Egypt. It took place under the presidency of Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry,with more than 92 heads of state and an estimated 35,000 representatives,or delegates,of 190 countries attending. It was the fifth climate summit held in Africa,and the first since 2016.
Androulla Kaminara is a former European civil servant who from September 2019 to May 2022 served as the Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. As such,she was the first female ambassador of the European Union to Pakistan. Before her appointment to the European External Action Service,she joined the European Commission in 1991,where she has served in various Directorates General,including those dealing with technology,communications,development cooperation,international relations,and humanitarian aid.
