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Arsenal's Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla (L) vies with Wigan Athletic's Barbados footballer Emmerson Boyce during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Wigan Athletic at The Emirates Stadium in London on May 14, 2013. Arsenal won the match 4-1.

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    that outpaced the rest of the world, which saw arrivals increase by 4 percent, said Beverly Nicholson-Doty, chairwoman of the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization."All the signs suggest Caribbean tourism is rallying," said Nicholson-Doty. "The region   Read more »

  • Lord brings Caribbean voice to science fiction

    Best of All Possible Worlds" (Del Rey), by Karen LordScience fiction gets a Caribbean perspective in Barbados -based Karen Lord's "The Best of All Possible Worlds."The ambitious novel follows the plight of the male survivors of a superior human civilization,   Read more »

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About Barbados

Barbados is an independent island nation located in the western Atlantic Ocean, just to the east of the Caribbean Sea, found at roughly 13° north of the Equator and 59° west of the Prime Meridian. Located relatively close to South America, the nation of Barbados is around 434 kilometres (270 mi) northeast of the South American nation of Venezuela.

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