Barbados

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Blackouts, explosions, deaths: why the Caribbean is waking up to the increased threat of lightning
A recent strike narrowly missed slave trade archives in Barbados, and experts warn more and worse is to come as global heating intensifies storms

Jewel Fraser in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

20, Nov, 2024 @12:00 PM

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Barbados PM asks Donald Trump for face-to-face meeting on climate
Exclusive: Mia Mottley, who has championed climate action, says she would seek common ground with US president-elect

Fiona Harvey in Baku

13, Nov, 2024 @6:00 PM

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Anglican group launches £7m project in Barbados to atone for slavery atrocities
Funds will help communities living on the Codrington estate, which was home to two sugar plantations

Natricia Duncan Caribbean correspondent

06, Sep, 2024 @6:17 PM

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Hurricane Beryl strengthens to category 5 storm as it ‘flattens’ island in Grenada
The hurricane has already made landfall on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, ripping off roofs with 240km/h winds

Guardian staff and agencies

02, Jul, 2024 @4:43 AM

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Tropical Storm Beryl predicted to turn into first hurricane of season
Storm is forecast to glance off Barbados on Sunday before heading through Caribbean and toward the Yucatán

Edward Helmore

29, Jun, 2024 @6:08 PM

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Wild ting: why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn
Two years in the making, and drawing on themes of healing, the slave trade and even Vikings, the latest show by Alberta Whittle, who represented Scotland at Venice, has taken over a grand mansion on a holiday isle

Elizabeth Fullerton

17, Jun, 2024 @10:27 AM

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Will the Anglican church come clean and pay its debt over slavery? Not from what we have seen so far | Robert Beckford
As terrible facts emerge about its level of complicity, we expect a just and humane response – but have yet to receive one, says theologian and broadcaster Robert Beckford

Robert Beckford

04, Jun, 2024 @8:00 AM

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Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm
Documents from Lambeth Palace archives show how one of Justin Welby’s predecessors approved the purchase of enslaved people for the notorious Codrington sugar estate

Desirée Baptiste and Jon Ungoed-Thomas

25, May, 2024 @3:20 PM

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Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy
Lambeth Palace documents show purchase of enslaved people in 18th century approved by Anglican archbishop

Desirée Baptiste and Jon Ungoed-Thomas

25, May, 2024 @3:20 PM

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Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation
Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax

Paul Lashmar and Jonathan Smith in Barbados

24, Apr, 2024 @4:52 PM

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‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims
Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change

Isabella Kaminski

22, Apr, 2024 @11:39 AM

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Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation
Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes

Jonathan Smith and Paul Lashmar

20, Apr, 2024 @10:25 AM

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