Honorary Order of Freedom of Barbados

Published on 10 Oct 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been bestowed with the prestigious 'Honorary Order of Freedom of Barbados' award in recognition of his "strategic leadership" and "valuable assistance" during the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 160 km east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. 

• Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 32 km from northwest to southeast and about 25 km from east to west at its widest point. 

• The capital and largest town is Bridgetown, which is also the main seaport.

• Barbados was in the past heavily dependent on the export of sugar as its main revenue earner, but in recent decades the economy has diversified into tourism and finance. 

• It is a former British colony which became independent in 1966, and a republic in 2021.

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