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    Elections in Barbados are held to choose members to fill elective offices in the House of Assembly. Elections are held on Election Day. These general elections...
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  • On 30 November 2021, Barbados transitioned from a parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the hereditary monarch of Barbados (Queen Elizabeth II)...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 19 January 2022 to elect the 30 members of the House of Assembly. The ruling Barbados Labour Party won all 30...
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    This is a list of prime ministers of Barbados. Caribbean portal Ilaro Court Elections in Barbados Politics of Barbados Prime Minister of the West Indies...
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    the Police Service. The government has been chosen by elections since 1961 elections, when Barbados achieved full self-governance. Before then, the government...
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    Barbados (UK: /bɑːrˈbeɪdɒs/ bar-BAY-doss; US: /bɑːrˈbeɪdoʊs/ bar-BAY-dohss; locally /bɑːrˈbeɪdəs/ bar-BAY-dəss) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles...
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    parliamentary elections and for proclaiming one of the candidates as prime minister. Sir Grantley Herbert Adams was appointed Barbados' first Premier...
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  • Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Roughly triangular...
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    The president of Barbados is the head of state of Barbados and the commander-in-chief of the Barbados Defence Force. The office was established when the...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 24 May 2018. The result was a landslide victory for the opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), which won all...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 21 May 2003. The result was a victory for the Barbados Labour Party, which won 23 of the 30 seats. Voter turnout...
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  • Barbados Labour Party (BLP), colloquially known as the "Bees", is a social democratic political party in Barbados established in 1938. It has been in...
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    30 constituencies currently represented in the Parliament of Barbados, as at the February 2013 general election.[needs update] From 1971, each constituency...
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    Parliament of Barbados is the national legislature of Barbados. It is accorded legislative supremacy by Chapter V of the Constitution of Barbados. The Parliament...
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    The flag of Barbados was designed by Grantley W. Prescod and was officially adopted to represent the nation of Barbados at midnight on 30 November 1966...
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    nationals of Barbados include: freedom of speech, press, worship, movement, and association. Executive power is vested in the President of Barbados, and is...
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    sixteen out of thirty seats. The general elections of 21 February were one of the closest elections Barbados has ever seen. On 24 May 2018, the BLP returned...
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    Early general elections were held in Barbados on 6 September 1994. The result was a victory for the opposition Barbados Labour Party, which won 19 of...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 28 May 1986. The result was a landslide victory for the Democratic Labour Party, which won 24 of the 27 seats...
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  • wipeout in the 2018 general election which left it with no MPs. In common with Barbados' other major party, the Barbados Labour Party, the DLP has been...
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    Sandra Mason (category Ambassadors of Barbados to Brazil)
    serving as the first president of Barbados since 2021. She was previously the eighth and final governor-general of Barbados from 2018 to 2021, the second...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 20 January 1999. The result was a landslide victory for the Barbados Labour Party led by Owen Arthur, which...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 3 November 1966. This election was the last contested using two-member constituencies, in which each voter had...
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  • 31 January 2019. Today, Barbados (2021-04-26). "Guyana's Chief Justice throws out second opposition election petition". Barbados Today. Retrieved 2023-04-17...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 21 February 2013. They were the first post-independence elections where the election date was announced five...
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    Mia Mottley (category Attorneys-general of Barbados)
    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...
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    of Barbados was a system of government in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state of Barbados from 1966 to 2021. Barbados shared...
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    General elections were held in Barbados on 15 January 2008. A concurrent referendum to determine whether or not to become a republic was initially planned...
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    The Workers Party of Barbados was a Marxist political party in Barbados. The party was established on 1 May 1985 by Dr. George Belle, who served as the...
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  • Prostitution in Barbados is legal but related activities such as brothel keeping and solicitation are prohibited. The country is a sex tourism destination...
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