The Embassy of Barbados in Washington, D.C. is the primary diplomatic mission of Barbados to the United States of America, and the Organisation of American States (OAS). It is maintained by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Barbados. The present Ambassador is Victor Fernandes, appointed on January 6, 2024, who replaced Noel Anderson Lynch.

It is located to the East of the official Embassy Row area at 2144 Wyoming Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood.Embassy of Barbados, VirtualGlobetrotting

Overview The embassy also operates two Consulates-General in: Miami and New York City; a Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City; and it is also further supported by a collection of Honorary Consulates in: Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Louisville, New Orleans, Portland, San Francisco, and Toledo.List of Barbadian Honorary Consulates (as of September 2011), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Barbados

Heads of mission Representative Title Appointed(presentationof credentials) Terminationof mission Appointed by Hilton Augustus Vaughan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary December 1, 1967 – Errol Barrow (G.G. John Montague Stow) Valerie Theodore McComie Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary September 1, 1968 – Errol Barrow (G.G. Arleigh Winston Scott) Fozlo Brewster Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim May 22, 1974 – Cecil Beaumont Williams Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary June 25, 1974(August 19, 1974) – Fozlo Brewster Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim December 16, 1975 – Maurice A. King Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 28, 1976(February 9, 1976) – Ralphston Orlando Marville Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim September 24, 1976 – John "Tom" Adams (G. G. William Douglas) Oliver Hamlet Jackman Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary May 13, 1977(May 16, 1977) – John "Tom" Adams (G. G. Deighton Lisle Ward) Ralphston Orlando Marville Charge d'Affaires ad interim December 26, 1980 – Charles A. T. Skeete Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 4, 1981(February 24, 1981) – Clifton Maynard Minister-Counselor, Charge d'Affaires ad interim July 28, 1983) – Peter Douglas Laurie Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 15, 1983(November 21, 1983) – Sir William Randolph Douglas Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary April 7, 1987(May 11, 1987) – Errol Barrow (G. G. Hugh Springer) Dr. Rudi Valentine Webster Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary November 5, 1991(November 25, 1991) – Erskine Sandiford (G. G. Ruth Nita Barrow) Dr. Sir Courtney N. Blackman, KA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary February 8, 1995(March 20, 1995) – Owen Seymour Arthur (G. G. Ruth Nita Barrow) Michael Ian King Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary October 10, 2000(December 7, 2000) – Owen Seymour Arthur (G. G. Sir Clifford Husbands) John Ernest Beale Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 29, 2009(May 20, 2000) June 30, 2016 David Thompson (G. G. Sir Clifford Husbands)Selwin Charles HartAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryNovember 1, 2016 (January 18, 2017)August 15, 2018Freundel Stuart (G.G. Sir Eliot Belgrave)Noel Anderson LynchAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryOctober 1, 2018 (January 11, 2019)CurrentMia Amor Mottley (G.G. Dame Sandra Mason)

History of visits List of diplomatic visits to the United States: North America and the Caribbean#Barbados

Chancery building history Former entities located at 2144 Wyoming: James Horatio Watmough (~1912– ~1917), Naval Officer Katharine Price Collier (~1918) Mabel Grouitch (June 1919) Frank L. Smith, U.S. House of Representatives (~1920) Legation of Finland 1940–1950The Finnish embassy's previous locations, The many homes of Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C. - by Marja Guercin, Public Affairs 1971–2003 Austria (~1953– ~1956) Embassy of Morocco ( ~1958–1962) Embassy of Syrian Arab Republic (~1962–1965)

See also

Diplomatic missions of Barbados Embassy of the United States in Barbados List of diplomatic missions in Washington, D.C. Barbados – United States relations

References

External links

Diplomatic Representation for Barbados, U.S. State Department