Barbados
Barbados is an island-country in the Caribbean Sea, east of the Grenadines. It is classified as a country with high human development (0.903 according to the index).
It was sighted for the first time by Spanish or Portuguese explorers. It was shown correctly on a map made in 1519 by a cartographer from Genoa.
It was setted by the British in 1627 and became a colony in 1652. It achieved self-government in 1961 and independence in 1966, although the Head of State is still the British Sovereign.
Its early economy was heavily dependent on sugar plantations that used slave labor from Africa. Conditions were so brutal that it experienced negative population growth.