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The Senate of Barbados is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados. The Senate is accorded legitimacy by Chapter V of the Constitution of Barbados. [1] It is the smaller of the two chambers. The Senate was established in 1964 to replace a prior body known as the Legislative Council.
The Parliament of Barbados is the national legislature of Barbados.It is accorded legislative supremacy by Chapter V of the Constitution of Barbados. [1] The Parliament is bicameral in composition [2] and is formally made up of two houses, an appointed Senate (Upper house) and an elected House of Assembly (Lower house), as well as the President of Barbados who is indirectly elected by both.
The government has been chosen by elections since 1961 elections, when Barbados achieved full self-governance.Before then, the government was a Crown colony consisting of either colonial administration solely (such as the Executive Council), or a mixture of colonial rule and a partially elected assembly, such as the Legislative Council.
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There are two major and long-standing parties in Barbados: the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). The 1990s have seen the dissolution of a third party: the National Democratic Party (NDP), and in recent times the creation of other parties such as the People's Empowerment Party (PEP), United Progressive Party and ...
The House of Assembly of Barbados is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados. It has 30 Members of Parliament (MPs), who are directly elected in single member constituencies using the simple-majority (or first-past-the-post ) system for a term of five years.
The president of the Senate of Barbados is the presiding officer of Senate of Barbados. This position was preceded by the president of the Legislative Council of Barbados. The President of the Senate is to perform presidential duties in the absence of the President. Below is a list of office-holders:
Kerryann F. Ifill (born 20 December 1973) [1] is a Barbadian politician. She served as President of the Senate of Barbados from 2012 to 2018. [2]She lost her sight due to cataracts at the age of four.