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Back in my younger days, I was in Barbados a few times.
I liked the place.
It's been near 50 years since I was there, now.
I do hope that fifty years from now Barbados proves to have been more ready for independence that Jamaica was when they left the Crown behind.

Barbados, Formally Casting Off the Queen, Becomes a Republic

I quite like that the first President is female, I don't expect that's ever happened before elsewhere.

Small islands can easily get swamped by criminals, I hope the Barbadians avoid that - there's enough money there to find alternatives.

I was in Jamaica around the time Manley was first elected, and things were going rather well at the time. A few years later it all seems to come undone. in 76, a friend and I barely got off the island with our lives after being caught up in some gang disagreements that got out of hand.

A few years back, the Mrs and I arrived on a cruise to find a completely different country.
We were not allowed to go meandering about the countryside, at all.

I do hope that Barbados remains something like it was.