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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.
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
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 West Indies became a self-governing province in 1883 because of the Church of England missions in territories that became British colonies. [clarification needed] It is made up of two mainland dioceses and six island dioceses, including Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the North-Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands.
Guardian Holdings Limited currently serves markets in 21 countries across the English and Dutch Caribbean, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, Curaçao, Aruba, St. Maarten, and Bonaire with their products and services being marketed throughout the Eastern Caribbean, the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, the US Virgin Islands, and Belize.
Codrington College was founded with the profits from the bequest of Christopher Codrington, who after his death in 1710 left portions of his sugar cane estates – the Codrington Plantations as well as land on Barbados and Barbuda to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to establish a religious college in Barbados.
In 2009 [11] and 2010, members of the upscale real estate industry in Barbados proposed the creation of artificial islands to be placed off the west coast. According to Paul Altman of Altman Realty the envisioned plan, would consist of two islands, one measuring 250 acres (1.0 km 2) in size, and would house new tourism based developments and upscale boutique shops; while the second island ...
Its secretariat is located in Barbados. [1] [2] Beginning in the mid-1980s, the CBU created several regionally syndicated programmes including CaribScope, Caribbean Newsline, Caribbean News Review, Caribbean Business Weekly, Talk Caribbean, the Caribbean Song Festival, Riddim Express and the CaribVision television news exchange, among other ...