Barbados
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- November 30, 1966
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and Assembly Chamber
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court of Justice, judges appointed by the Judicial and Legal Services Commissions; Caribbean Court of Justice and the highest court of appeal
RELIGIONS
63.4% Protestants, 4.2% Catholics, 7% other Christians, 25.4% other
From the country
- JANUARY 1, 2013BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
- AUGUST 7, 2012BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES URGED TO IMPOSE MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on several Caribbean
- JANUARY 1, 2012BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
- OCTOBER 2, 2011BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
BARBADOS ‘TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY’
Barbados is to abolish the mandatory death penalty before the end of the year in keeping with an Inter-
- JANUARY 1, 2011BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
- JANUARY 1, 2010BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
- MAY 29, 2009BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
BARBADOS TO ABOLISH MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY
Barbados Deputy Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart, who is also the country's Attorney General, announced that the mandatory death sentence will be abolished in Barbados.
- MAY 4, 2009BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
BARBADOS GOVERNMENT ABOLISHING MANDATORY DEATH SENTENCE
Barbados Attorney General Freundel Stuart confirmed in an interview with the Sunday
- JANUARY 1, 2009BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
- DECEMBER 5, 2008BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
BARBADOS DEATH PENALTY CASE GOES TO HUMAN RIGHTS COURT
the Inter-American Court on Human Rights will hear a death penalty case from Barbados when it re-convenes in Costa Rica in 2009.
- DECEMBER 3, 2008BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
BARBADOS: DEATH PENALTY STAYS, SAYS SINCKLER
Barbados reaffirmed its decision to maintain the death penalty.
- NOVEMBER 4, 2008BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
the president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered that provisional measures be put in place to ensure Tyrone DaCosta Cadogan of Barbados
the president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered that provisional measures be put in place to ensure Tyrone DaCosta Cadogan of Barbados