Barbados

bar-ba'doz, an island of the West Indies. It belongs to the United Kingdom. It lies at the eastern entrance to the Caribbean Sea and is the headquarters for British troops in the West Indies. The entire area is about 166 square miles. The population is 196,000. The capital is Bridgetown with 35,000 people. About 100,000 acres are under cultivation, planted chiefly with sugarcane. The island is well provided with churches, schools, and courts. There are well built wagon roads, telephone lines, and one narrow gauge railway, twenty-one miles in length. The little island publishes several newspapers, including three dailies. The exports are sugar, rum, petroleum for fuel, vegetables, and fish.