Barbados

1663: English crown colony
01.02.1954: self-government
03.01.1958-31.05.1962: part of the West Indies Federation
30.11.1966: independence from United Kingdom
09.12.1966: member of United Nations

Area: 431 km²
Population: 279,912 (2006)
Capital: Bridgetown
Currency: 1965 East Caribbean dollar (XCD, EC$) = 100 cents → 1972 Barbadian dollar (BBD, Bds$) = 100 cents
GDP per capita: 17,300 $ (2005)
Ethnic groups: local black (Afro-Bajans) 87.1%, mulatto 6%, Anglo-Bajans 4.3%, Americans 1.2%, Indo-Pakistani 1.1%, other 0.3% (2000)
Official language: English

Merchant marine: 2 ships (1,000 Grt or over) 13,545 Grt/19,577 Dwt (1996)
Coastline: 97 km
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary military service (volunteers at earlier age with parental consent), no conscription
Military expenditures: N/A

Queen: Elisabeth II
Governor-general: Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands (01.06.1996)
Prime Minister: David John Howard Thompson (16.01.2008)


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Barbados Coast Guard
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early 1973: Barbados Coast Guard (CG) formed
1977: subordinated to Barbados Regiment
15.08.1979: part of new-established Barbados Defence Force

Commander: Lt.Cdr. Errington R. Shurland
Personnel: 4+57 (1978;1980), 14+65 (1983), 11+81 (1985;1986), 12+79 (1989), 12+78 (1990), 12+93 (1992;1996), 11+85 (1998;2004)
Prefix to ships' names: HMBS (His/Her Majesty's Barbadian Ship); till early 1980s: BCGS (Barbados Coast Guard Ship)
Bases: St. Ann's Fort (1973-1982), 'HMBS Willoughby Fort' (02.1982-02.2007), and 'HMBS Pelican' in Spring Garden (present, since 07.2007) - all at Bridgetown

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Queen:
11.1966- HM Elizabeth II (of the United Kingdom)

Governors:
05.1953-09.1959 Sir Robert Duncan Harris Arundell
10.1959-11.1966 Sir John Montague Stow
Governors-general
11.1966-05.1967 Sir John Montague Stow
05.1967-08.1976 Sir Arleigh Winston Scott
08.1976-11.1976 Sir William Randolph Douglas (acting)
11.1976-01.1984 Sir Deighton Harcourt Lisle Ward
01.1984-02.1984 Sir William Randolph Douglas (acting)
02.1984-06.1990 Sir Hugh Worrell Springer
06.1990-12.1995 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow
12.1995-06.1996 Sir Denys Ambrose Williams (acting)
06.1996- Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands

Premiers
02.1954-04.1958 Sir Grantley Herbert Adams
04.1958-12.1962 Hugh Gordon Cummins
12.1962-11.1966 Errol Walton Barrow
Prime Ministers:
11.1966-09.1976 Errol Walton Barrow
09.1976-03.1985 John Michael Geoffrey Manningham "Tom" Adams
03.1985-05.1986 Harold Bernard St. John
05.1986-06.1987 Errol Walton Barrow
06.1987-09.1994 Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
09.1994-01.2008 Owen Seymour Arthur
01.2008- David John Howard Thompson

Chiefs of Staff, BDF
08.1979-1980Col. Leonard C. Banfield
1981-1999Brig. Rudyard E.C. Lewis
1999-af.2004 Col. H. Deighton Maynard
af.2004- Col. Alvin Quintyne

Commanding Officers, BCG
c.1974 Lt.Cdr. William Phillips, RNR
...-1980 Mjr. C.A. McConney
1980-af.1992 Lt.Cdr. C.V.C. Belle
af.1992-af.1996 Lt.Cdr. Wilbert N. Kirton
af.1996-bf.1999 Lt.Cdr. W. Lashley
bf.1999-c.2000 Lt.Cdr. David A. Dowridge
c.2000-2001 Lt.Cdr. K. Jones
2001- Lt.Cdr. Errington Richard Shurland


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