Barbados Key Facts Continued….

• Barbados was the only vacation destination in this Hemisphere with a scheduled Concorde service.

• One of the retired British Airways Concordes now resides at our international airport.

• The name 'Barbados' is derived from the Bearded Fig Trees once found in abundance on the island.

• Barbados is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and is 21 miles long 14 miles wide!

• Barbados has pure drinking water and was the first Caribbean island to have piped water.

• Barbados' cultural diversity helps make the island so distinctively charming.

• Utilities are available 100% island-wide.

• The maximum daily temperature is 75-90 °F year round. The island is consistently cooled by North-East trade winds.

• We are the only coral island in the region with all white sand beaches.

• Barbados Fertility Centre is the only full time fertility unit in the Caribbean region. Its success rates are higher than the UK and USA and treatment costs are a third of the price.

• The island is divided into 11 parishes.

• There are only two parishes that do not have a coastline – St. Thomas and St. George

• The capital of Barbados is Bridgetown located in the south-west parish of St. Michael.

• The Lord Nelson Statue in Bridgetown was erected 22 March 1812 making it older than the famous Lord Nelson Statue in Trafalgar Square in London.

• The currency in Barbados is The Barbados Dollar (BDS) it is tied to the US Dollar (US $1 = BDS $2)

• The time in Barbados is GMT – 4 and there is no daylight-saving time (the time remains the same year-round)