Background and figures as recorded in the CIA World Factbook.
Barbados was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Enslaved Africans worked the sugar plantations established on the island, which initially dominated the Caribbean sugar industry. By 1720, Barbados was no longer a dominant force within the sugar industry, having been surpassed by the Leeward Islands and Jamaica. Slavery was abolished in 1834. The Barbadian economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the 20th century. The gradual introduction of social and political reforms in the 1940s and 1950s led to independence from the UK in 1966.
Source: CIA World Factbook — a work of the US government, in the public domain
11 on file. Listed because operations, tax and reporting are usually organised at this level rather than nationally.
| Name | Type | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Saint Joseph | Parish | BB-06 |
| Saint Andrew | Parish | BB-02 |
| Saint Peter | Parish | BB-09 |
| Saint Lucy | Parish | BB-07 |
| Saint James | Parish | BB-04 |
| Saint Michael | Parish | BB-08 |
| Christ Church | Parish | BB-01 |
| Saint Philip | Parish | BB-10 |
| Saint John | Parish | BB-05 |
| Saint George | Parish | BB-03 |
| Saint Thomas | Parish | BB-11 |
They are different things, done by different entities, and one is never a route to the other.
Roarcry · the church
A donation to the congregation. It is not repaid, earns nothing, and carries no claim on anything. Roarcry is not a registered 501(c)(3), so give as a gift rather than for a write-off.
A gift named for Barbados is a restricted gift: recorded against Barbados and spent there. If it cannot be spent there within a year it is pooled into the general fund and spent wherever it is needed most. That is a term of the gift, said here so that giving is agreeing to it.
Investment Fund, LLC · the issuer
A subscription for Class B units. It is at risk, it is not tax-deductible, it is not a donation, and you can lose all of it. Open only to verified accredited investors.
One fund covers every country on the map, on one set of terms. No country has its own vehicle, its own minimum or its own return.
The church is not the issuer, not a guarantor and not a party to any subscription. No donation to the church confers any interest in the fund.
This site publishes no safety assessment of its own. Conditions change faster than any page, so these link to the governments that issue advisories and revise them.
Search each for Barbados. Advisories are issued per country and change without notice; a link here is not an endorsement of travel.
The closest countries on the map, by distance alone.