Student Name: Troy JohnsonDate: 5/3/10

It is located just east of the Caribbean Sea

Motto: "Pride and Industry“ Anthem: In Plenty and In Time of Need

As in other Caribbean countries of British colonial heritage, cricket is very popular on the island. Barbadians play on the West Indies cricket team. In addition to several warm-up matches and six "Super Eight" matches, and the country hosted the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup. They have had many great cricketers such as Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Frank Worrell, Joel Garner and Sir Clyde Walcott.

Obadele Thompson is a world class sprinter from Barbados; he won a bronze medal at Olympic Games over 100m in 2000. Ryan Brathwaite, a hurdler, reached the 2008 Olympic semi-finals in Beijing. Brathwaite also earned Barbados its first ever medal at the world championships in Berlin, Germany on August 20, 2009, when he won the men's 110 meter hurdles title. The 21-year-old timed a national record of 13.14 seconds to win the Gold Medal.

In golf, the Barbados Open is an annual stop on the European Seniors Tour. In December 2006 the WGC-World Cup took place at the country's Sandy Lane resort on the Country Club course, an eighteen-hole course designed by Tom Fazio. The Barbados Golf Club is the other main course on the island. Sanctioned by the PGA European Tour to host a PGA Seniors Tournament in 2003 and it has also hosted the Barbados Open on several occasions.

Basketball is a popular sport played at school or college and is increasing in popularity, as is volleyball, though volleyball is mainly played indoors. At certain beaches, such as Brandons beach in St. Michael, it is common to see people gather to play beach volleyball.

Motorsports also play a role, with Rally Barbados occurring each summer and currently being listed on the FIA NACAM calendar. Other sports played include hockey, table tennis, road tennis, football, rugby, polo and swimming.

The presence of the trade winds along with favourable swells make the southern tip of the Island an ideal location for wave sailing (an extreme form of the sport of windsurfing).

Netball is also popular with women in Barbados.

Attractions, landmarks and points of interest Tourism accounts for almost one half of the economy. Name / Parish Location:

– Christ Church Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary

St. Lawrence Gap Grantley Adams International Airport

Chancery Lane Swamp Christ Church Foundation School (1809)

Ocean Park,Barbados Crane Beach – St. Andrew

Chalky Mount potteries Cherry Tree Hill

Morgan Lewis Windmill Barclays Park – St. George

Francia Great House Gun Hill Signal Station

Orchid World – St. James

St. James Parish Church Folkestone Marine Park

Lancaster Great House Gallery and Gardens Queen's College

– St. John Codrington College

Conset Bay St. John Parish Church & church yard

Massiah Street

On April 1998, the Order of National Heroes Act was passed by the Parliament of Barbados. According to the government, the act established that 28 April (the centenary of the birth of Sir Grantley Adams) would be celebrated as National Heroes' Day. The act also declared that there are ten national heroes of Barbados. All of which would be elevated to the title of The Right Excellent.[34]

The ten official National Heroes of Barbados are: Bussa ( – 1816) Sarah Ann Gill (1795–1866) Samuel Jackman Prescod (1806–1871) Dr. Charles Duncan O’Neal (1879–1936) Clement Osbourne Payne (1904–1941) Sir Grantley Herbert Adams (1898–1971) Rt. Hon. Errol Walton Barrow (1920–1987) Sir Hugh Worrell Springer (1913–1994) Sir Garfield St. Aubyn Sobers (1936 – ) Sir Frank Walcott (1916–1999)

The climate which is moderate tropical, with a wet season (June–November) and a more dry season (December–May). The annual precipitation ranges between 40 inches (1,000 mm) and 90 inches (2,300 mm).

Barbados is often spared the worst effects of the region's tropical storms and hurricanes during the rainy season as its far eastern location in the Atlantic Ocean puts it just outside the principal hurricane strike zone. On average a hurricane may strike about once every 26 years. The last significant hit from a hurricane to cause severe damage to Barbados was Hurricane Janet in 1955