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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Barbados
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC -4
- Electricity: 115V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Currency: Barbados Dollar (B$)
- Country Dialing Code: 246
Barbados
Location
Caribbean, island in the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela
Capital
Bridgetown
Population
279,254 (July 2005 est.)
Regions
11 parishes; Christ Church, Saint Andrew, Saint George, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Joseph, Saint Lucy, Saint Michael, Saint Peter, Saint Philip, Saint Thomas; note - the city of Bridgetown may be given parish status
Climate
tropical; rainy season (June to October)
Ethnic groups
black 90%, white 4%, Asian and mixed 6%
Religions
Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist 7%, other 12%), Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, other 12%
Languages
English
Government type
parliamentary democracy; independent sovereign state within the Commonwealth
Background
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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