Barbados and its Economic Challenges Tourism emerged as the dominant industry in Barbados in the 1970’s‚ replacing the sugar industry as the main foreign exchange earner. It is estimated that tourism currently accounts for 54% of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and 14% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Approximately‚ 10% of the labour force is employed in the industry. Barbados currently has the highest Human Development Index in the Caribbean region and its GDP per capita of US$16
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Case Study of Barbados Michelle Mycoo Department of Surveying and Land Information‚ The University of the West Indies‚ Trinidad Tourist destinations are under market pressure to offer a green product‚ including the Caribbean‚ one of the world’s most tourism-dependent regions. A decade after the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States convened in 1994‚ sustainable tourism remains a priority for Caribbean countries. This paper‚ using Barbados as a case study
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CASE PROGRAM 2004-57.1 HIV/AIDS in the Barbados workplace – one company’s dilemma On 20 June 2004‚ George Hope‚ the General Manager of Caron Foods‚ a major manufacturing company in Barbados‚ faced the challenge of having to deal with the death of one of his employees - Maxine Cave - who had died of AIDS. Maxine was a production worker in the food plant and had been with the company for five years. She was a dedicated employee who had a positive work attitude. She rarely missed a day from work
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century‚ at the colony of Roanoke‚ the thought of chattel slavery had neither a clear law nor economic practice with the English. However by the end of that following century‚ the demand for slaves in the English colonies including the Chesapeake‚ Barbados‚ Pennsylvania and the Carolinas was so great and the majority of labor was carried out by West African slaves. The argument of whether Native Americans could also be used as a form of labor for the plantation societies of the English colonies is
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Title: Men‚ Masculinity and Family Planning in Barbados since 1950 Personal reflection: initially I wanted to talk about something that had to do with women I was redirected to this topic about men‚ Masculinity and family planning in Barbados since the 1950s. This topic has proved to be very informative and a study of masculinity is definitely needed as one author said you can’t do a study on women without also looking at masculinity. Feminism has been studied for over four decades while masculinity
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high school students towards homosexuality among the youth in Barbados. Table of Contents Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INTRODUCTION As a teenager growing up in my homeland Barbados‚ I have noticed that over the past years the issue of homosexuality among the youth locally has been a much debated topic. However‚ more recently this has become a very heated discussion among young people in Barbados. Many adults as well as the students have alluded to the idea‚
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different powers and limitations when it comes to governing any body of people. In both Barbados and Britain‚ the Prime Minister who governs their society has specific powers and limitations by which they abide. Sometimes these powers and limitations may or may not lead to Prime Ministerial Government. In the Caribbean‚ the prime minister has greater dominance over the executive than in Britain. The Prime Minister Barbados is generally more powerful in relation to the executive or Cabinet than the prime
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black; the size of landholdings changed; and eventually the West Indies became ‘the cockpit of Europe’. The list of changes the sugar revolution brought is almost inexhaustible. The sugar revolution is most clearly demonstrated in the history of Barbados where it occurred in roughly one decade‚ 1640 to 1650. It was not quite so rapid in the other islands. For example‚ Jamaica changed to sugar slowly and less completely at a much later date. However‚ in each island ‘revolution’ can be used to denote
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the narrator‚ who is a young child from New York City. Foster also states that a quest must also have “(b) a place to go‚ (c) a stated reason to go there”. The narrator of the story has just landed in Barbados which is shown when she states “I was busy attending to the alien sights and sounds of Barbados‚
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provided a market for the sugar which was produced. The Sugar Revolution occurred first in Barbados where it took a mere decade for the transformation to take place (1640 to 1650). It happened at a slower pace in other islands. Some other small islands had fast rates of change such as: Nevis‚ Antigua‚ St Kitts and Montserrat. Why was Barbados the First Island to change to Sugar Production? 1) Barbados had comparatively speaking a larger population size than the other Eastern Caribbean islands
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