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Cast Your Ballot for Barbados' Presidential Ties With the US!

Market Watch With elections right around the corner, US visitors to Barbados have been amazed to discover the many links between past and present US presidential candidates and Barbados.

With tonight's Vice Presidential Debate being led by Gwen Ifill, who is of Barbadian parentage, numerous ties between the US and Barbados have been discovered.

For example, the United States' first President George Washington resided in Barbados, this was the only place he lived outside of the US; similarly, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both individually visited the island, forming integral alliances with Barbados and the Caribbean over trade, finance and development issues. Visit Barbados to re-create your own Presidential experience based on the following suggestions:

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I hate to look at the Barbados tourists site that give the history of Barbados.The ones that talk of Columbus discovering these islands and the other foolish tales that the Bob Marley and Burning Spear called 'mis-education'.I agree with them as a matter of fact Burning Spear referred to Christopher Columbus as a 'damn blasted liar'.Thank god for Rastafari. One of the funniest stories is the one of the bearded fig tree and the name Los Barbados which was supposed to mean 'the bearded one'. In the words of Gary Cole from the book reflections; The Colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history.Four centuries ago,Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap,kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the island the Indians called Ichirouganaim.The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and sailors knew the island as the barbarous island,"Los B