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 Latin America and the Caribbean -Contacts-
 Barbados

Basic Data*

Area: 431 km²
Capital: Bridgetown
Language: English
Total population: 0.3 (millions 2004)
Urban population: 52.1 (% of total)
Total estimated population 2015: 0.3 (millions)
Currency: Barbados dollar
GDP Per Capita: ...
Grow rate of population: 0,2 (%/annum, 2004-2015)
Religion(s): Roman Catholic and protestant
Population with sustainable access to an improved water source: 100 (%, año 2004)
Population with sustainable access to improved sanitation:

100 (%, annum 2004)
Borders: Island between Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, east of Saint Vincent
More information about the country: http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/cty_f_BRB.html
Record of disasters:
http://www.em-dat.net/disasters/Visualisation/profiles/natural-table-emdat.php?country=Barbados
Technological disasters:
http://www.em-dat.net/disasters/Visualisation/profiles/tech-table-emdat.php?country=Barbados

 

Central Emergency Relief Organization
Edificio BNB, James and Lucas Street, St. Michael
Tel: (246) 436-6624 / 435-5192
Fax:(246) 429-4055
E-mail: cero@caribsurf.com
Web Site: http://www.cero.gov.bb/

Disasters Office PAHO/WHO
P. O. Box 508
Bridgetown, Barbados
Tel: (246) 436-6448
Fax: (246) 436-6447
E-mail: alertiva@cpc.paho.org / disaster@cpc.paho.org
Web Site: http://www.disaster-info.net/carib/


CDERA
The Garrison, St. Michael
Tel: (246) 436-9651
Fax:(246) 437-7649
E-mail: cdera@caribsurf.com
Web Site. http://www.cdera.org


Red Cross
Red Cross House
Jemmotts Lane Bridgetown, Barbados
Tel: (246) 426-2052 / 430-0646
Fax: (246) 426-2052
E-mail: bdosredcross@caribsurf.com


United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Office for Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Granada, Montserrat, St. Kitts / Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent y las Granadines.
Jemmott's Lane, P.O.Box 625c
St. Michael Bridgetown, Barbados
Tel: (246) 437-8874
Fax: (246) 429-2448
E-mail: b.nyarko-mensah@undp.org
Web Site: http://www.bb.undp.org/


Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)
P.O. Box 130, Bridgetown, Barbados
Tel.: 246-425-1362/3/5
Fax.: 246-424-4733
Web Site: http://www.cimh.edu.bb/

Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences. The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados
Tel: (246) 417 4322-24
Fax: (246) 417 4325, (246) 417 4597
E-mail: bcs_sec@uwichill.edu.bb
Web Site: http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/

Ministry of Health. Deputy Health Coordinator
Jemmotts Lane
St. Michael
Tel: (246) 427-8326 (W)
Fax: (246) 435-0657
E-mail: smohsouth@sunbeach.net


Barbados Online
Web Site: http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/rmsdsol/cos.html

 
 
* Source: Statistics and indicators are provided by the International Center for Scientific Research (CIRS); the United Nations Statistics Division from the World Statistics Pocketbook, Statistical Yearbook and Report, except capital cities, languages and illiteracy rate; the Human Development Report 2006; and the Data Base of Stadistics and Social Indicators (BADEINSO) of ECLAC.
   

Regional Disaster Information Center
Tel: (506) 296.3952 | Fax: (506) 2231.5973
Pavas, San José, Costa Rica,
P.O. Box 1122-1200 San José, Costa Rica – 101092
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