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
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Two men sentenced to hang in Bridgetown's Glendairy...
Two men sentenced to hang in Bridgetown's Glendairy Prison, Barbados, September 21, received a stay of execution
- JULY 17, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The justice and peace commission of the Roman Catholic...
The justice and peace commission of the Roman Catholic diocese in Barbados renewed calls for a constitutional amendment to abolish the death penalty, following a Privy Council ruling that the death sentence in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago was constitu
- JULY 9, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
There was mixed Caribbean reaction to three separate...
There was mixed Caribbean reaction to three separate decisions handed down by the London-based Privy Council in death penalty
- JULY 6, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was...
The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was abolished, winning a reprieve for more than 60 prisoners on death row, in a historic judgment from nine judges sitting in London
- JUNE 8, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The London-based Privy Council was expected to hand...
The London-based Privy Council was expected to hand down a ruling that would affect the imposition of the death penalty in several Caribbean countries, according to a statement issued by the Barbados government
- APRIL 11, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
Barbados retains a mandatory death penalty or murder and treason.
- MARCH 22, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law...
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law firm Simons Muirhead and Burton, which represented three of the four men appeal including, Charles Matthews, from Trinidad, and Lennox Boyce and Jeffrey Joseph, from Barbados
- MARCH 22, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners...
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica could win a reprieve if an unprecedented privy council hearing beginning in London ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was unconstitutional
- MARCH 22, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The appeal was the culmination of a strategy deployed...
The appeal was the culmination of a strategy deployed over the last six years by English lawyers working free of charge on behalf of Caribbean death row inmates
- JANUARY 1, 2003BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is mandatory for murder and treason...
The death penalty is mandatory for murder and treason - but not for mutiny
- OCTOBER 5, 2002BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
With 726 violent deaths since January in a country of 2
With 726 violent deaths since January in a country of 2
- OCTOBER 1, 2002BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
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