Barbados Nationality Law - Rights

Rights

Citizens of Barbados enjoy the following rights:

  • All Barbadians 18 years and over have the right to vote and the right to contest in elections, if they so desire. Voting by right is optional.
  • Citizens have the right to join any Trade Union or political party of his or her choice.
  • The Constitution states that persons can not be persecuted based on religion. All religions are free to practise as part of freedom of worship.
  • The right to hold a Barbadian passport and entitlement to receive assistance by Barbadian consulates, embassies, and high commissions all around the world.
  • Citizens can move about the island freely without seeking permission from authorities to do so.

Barbadians enjoy certain privileges as citizens of a member state of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). As with many of the other countries of CARICOM, Barbados issues their version of passports bear the emblem of the CARICOM organisation.

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