Barbados

Barbados
State type
Unitary
Type of government
Democracia parlamentaria y monarquia constitucional
Branches
Legislative
Judicial
Executive
Administrative Division

National Level

Gobierno Central

Local Level

Parroquia 11

Ciudad Capital 1

National Urban Policy

  • The Physical Development Plan provides a vision for the sustainable growth and development of the nation by setting out policies to guide relationships among land uses, built form, mobility, community facilities and physical infrastructure. It is also intended to be a framework to facilitate and guide investment, both public and private, in Barbados for the next 10 years to advance a healthy, prosperous and resilient nation.

    National urban policy type:
    Partial - National Development Policy
    Policy temporality:
    Medium-term
  • Barbados is a parliamentary democracy. According to the Commonwealth Local Government Forum the eleven parishes are divided into thirty electoral districts each composed of a constituency council (CC) with local representatives chosen by the central government in charge of representing the concerns of the constituency’s residents, maintain relations with the central government and manage the resources assigned.

    The constituency councils consist of eleven persons a chairperson and a treasurer, which are recommended by a committee of senior civil servants to the minister who ultimately makes the selection. Normally the persons elected are the ones that have community experience and are representative of interest groups. The CC cannot collect or raise revenue they only receive restricted transfer from the central government and have the capacity to manage these resources. 
     

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