Ministries and Agencies of the Barbados Government
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The Government of Barbados contains a number of Ministries
and Agencies which control and govern various aspects of the country, these are known in Barbados
as Government Ministries.
Ministry (government department)
A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister or a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or...
and Agencies which control and govern various aspects of the country, these are known in Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
as Government Ministries.
Current Structure of Government ministries
- Prime MinisterPrime Minister of BarbadosThe Prime Minister of Barbados is a very influential position as head of government of Barbados. According to Barbados Constitution, the Prime Minister must always be a member of Parliament, and is appointed by the Governor-General who is responsible for conducting parliamentary elections, and for...
- Prime Minister's Office
- Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry of Economic Affairs, Empowerment, Innovation, Trade, Industry and Commerce
- Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development
- Ministry of Youth, Family and Sports
- Ministry of the Environment, Water Resources and Drainage
- Ministry of Finance, Investment, Labour, Civil Service and Energy
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
- Ministry of Health
- Ministry of Housing and Lands
- Ministry of International Business and International Transport
- Ministry of Transport and Works
- Ministry of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment, Urban and Rural Development
- Ministry of Community Development and Culture
- Ministry of Tourism
All Ministries listed by industry
- Ministry of AgricultureAgricultureAgriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
- Found within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Ministry of Business DevelopmentBusinessA business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
- Found within the Ministry of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development - Ministry for the Civil ServiceCivil serviceThe term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....
- Ministry of CommerceCommerceWhile business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
- Found within the Ministry of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development - Ministry of Consumer AffairsConsumerConsumer is a broad label for any individuals or households that use goods generated within the economy. The concept of a consumer occurs in different contexts, so that the usage and significance of the term may vary.-Economics and marketing:...
- Found within the Ministry of Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Business Development - Ministry of EnergyEnergyIn physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...
- Found within the Ministry of Energy and Public Utilities - Ministry of Economic Affairs - Found within the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs
- Ministry of EducationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
- Found within the Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs and Sports - Ministry of EnvironmentNatural environmentThe natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
- Found within the Ministry of Housing, Lands and the Environment - Ministry of FinanceFinance"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
- Found within the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs - Ministry of Foreign AffairsForeign AffairsForeign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...
- Found within Senior Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade - Ministry of Foreign TradeTradeTrade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and...
- Found within Senior Minister and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade - Ministry of HealthHealthHealth is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...
- Ministry of Home Affairs
- Ministry of IndustryIndustryIndustry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
- Found within the Ministry of Industry and International Business - Ministry of International Business - Found within the Ministry of Industry and International Business
- Ministry of International TransportTransportTransport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...
- Found within the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport - Ministry of HousingHouseA house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...
- Found within the Ministry of Housing, Lands and the Environment - Ministry of LabourLabour movementThe term labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labour...
- Found within the Ministry of Labour and Social Security - Ministry of Lands - Found within the Ministry of Housing, Lands and the Environment
- Ministry of Public Utilities - Found within the Ministry of Energy and Public Utilities
- Ministry of Public WorksPublic worksPublic works are a broad category of projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community...
- Ministry of Rural DevelopmentRuralRural areas or the country or countryside are areas that are not urbanized, though when large areas are described, country towns and smaller cities will be included. They have a low population density, and typically much of the land is devoted to agriculture...
- Found within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Ministry of Social SecuritySocial securitySocial security is primarily a social insurance program providing social protection or protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others. Social security may refer to:...
- Found within the Ministry of Labour and Social Security - Ministry of Social TransformationSocial transformationOne definition of Social transformation is the process by which an individual alters the socially ascribed social status of their parents into a socially achieved status for themselves. However another definition refers to large scale social change as in cultural reforms or transformations...
- Ministry of Sports - Found within the Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs and Sports
- Ministry of State - Found within the Ministry of State, Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of the Civil Service
- Ministry of TourismTourismTourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
- Found within the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport - Ministry of Youth AffairsYouthYouth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood . Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals could exist at all ages.-Usage:Around the world, the terms "youth",...
- Found within the Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs and Sports