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.
Read more about this topic: Barbados Nationality Law
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