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Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Free Travel Cheap Tickets Auction Newsletter Immigration Affiliate Make Money Barbados HISTORY British sailors who landed on Barbados in the 1620s at the site of present-day Holetown on the Caribbean coast found the island uninhabited. As elsewhere in the eastern Caribbean, Arawak Indians may have been annihilated by invading Caribs, who are believed to have subsequently abandoned t ...

Leaders of Barbados [To the list of countries] [To the ZPC Homepage] The British Monarch, as head of the State, is represented by a Governor-General (independence proclaimed on 29 Nov 1966). Parties: DLP: Democratic Labour Party; BLP: Barbados Labour Party Heads of Government Chief Ministers Grantley Herbert Adams 1 Feb 1954 - 10 Apr 1958 (+1971) [picture] BLP Hugh Gordon Cummings 10 Apr 1958 - 8 Dec 1961 (+1970) BLP Errol Walton Barrow 8 Dec 19 ...