Barbados: history and politics

By Sophie Vern Barbados is a country and an island in the Lesser Antilles. It is a small island, only amounting to 431 square kilometres. It is found in the west of the North Atlantic, and in the Caribbean Sea. It first appeared on a map owned by the Spanish in 1501 and, despite also being visited by the Portuguese in 1536, it was only taken over later by the English in 1625. It later became a