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Northern Caribbean University is the oldest private tertiary institution in Jamaica, and was first known as West Indian Training School. It began with 8 students in 1907, as an institution offering courses only up to the twelfth grade. Following a temporary closure in 1913 it resumed operations in 1919.
American University of Barbados, School of Medicine [2] [3] The following institutions are all for-profit medical training schools: American University of Integrative Sciences [4] [5] Bridgetown International University [6] Ross University School of Medicine [7] Victoria University of Barbados [8]
The Barbados Workers' Union is a national trade union in Barbados.It has 25,000 members and represents them directly, negotiating with individual companies in each sector. Its membership covers all areas of employment in Barbados: agriculture, tourism and restaurant Services, transport (road, sea and air), government and statutory boards, banking and insurance, manufacturing and industry ...
In 2002, the government of Barbados announced that it intended to merge the Barbados Community College with the then-named Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic and the Erdiston Teachers' Training College to form the new University College of Barbados. [8] One reason for this was the capacity issues among the three institutions.
The CTUSAB has its origins in the emergence of protests against the Barbados government's acceptance of an IMF/World Bank structural adjustment programme in the early 1990s. The proposed programme included the devaluation of the Barbadian dollar , cuts to welfare, public services and public salaries, public sector job cuts, increases in taxes ...
The Barbados Advocate: Consumer services Publishing Bridgetown: 1895 Newspaper P A The Daily Nation: Consumer services Publishing Bridgetown: 1973 Newspaper, part of ONE Caribbean Media (Trinidad and Tobago) P A Trans Island Air 2000: Consumer services Airlines Christ Church: 1982 Airline, defunct 2004 P D Voice of Barbados: Consumer services
This means that all Caribbean people applying to immigrate to Canada from islands surrounding Barbados must apply through the office in Port of Spain, Trinidad. In 2011 the High Commission investigated relocating as it was believed it might have been built above a cave.
In more recent history Barbados comparatively is experiencing increased levels of immigration than some of its nearby neighbours in the Caribbean region. The number of illegal Caribbean migrants in Barbados was estimated to be less than 10,000 individuals in the late 1990s, but between 2001-2009, the minister of immigration for the country stated that an estimated 30,000 Caricom nationals ...