Full Coverage: Barbados

06.03.2008 A policymaker who advocates population and gender issues, Dame Billie Antoinette Miller of Barbados, and a New York-based NGO that helps save women’s lives in developing countries have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.

27.04.2007 The names of 100,000 slaves registered in Barbados in 1834 go online today on an ancestry-tracing website that by the end of the year will contain the names of three million slaves in 23 British colonies.
Ancestry
+ London events commemorating the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade

19.08.2004 The first Green expo in Barbados focuses on showing how can an average Barbadian life be enhanced just by thinking green and being sensitive to the environment. Listen to the interview with Damon Gerard Corrie, the hereditary paramount chief of the disappearing Eagle clan of Arawaks.
from Caribbean Environmental Reporters Network (CERN)

01.10.2003 Barbados’ Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Erskine Griffith said the CREP project complements his government’s overall development plan for the Scotland District.
CREP is providing 100,000 Euros to the Bawden Environmental Park Group, which operates an organic farm within the Scotland District, to be used for infrastructural development at the farm to create a model site for organic farming, as well as for the training of small farmers.

09.10.2002 The imposition of a Caribbean-wide levy on all major development activities that present an environmental risk was proposed by the Barbados Minister of Physical Development and Environment yesterday.

14.05.2002 A computer training programme in Barbados for people with disabilities has not only given them an opportunity to develop IT skills, but has also helped them to regain the lost confidence to set up their own businesses.

14.05.2002 A computer training programme in Barbados for people with disabilities has not only given them an opportunity to develop IT skills, but has also helped them to regain the lost confidence to set up their own businesses.

15.02.2002 The World Bank will give Barbados a $15 million loan to support treatment for its HIV positive population. This is the first time the Bank has given such a loan as it usually only gives out money for health infrastructure. 'Economic and political stability' are cited as reasons why the Bank is diverging from the norm. The Barbados government has already pledged $50 million over the next five years to purchase antiretroviral drugs.

07.01.2000 Barbados is surrounded by water and has adequate rainfall each year. But like many other small island developing states its supplies are under heavy stress.