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A. About 92 percent of Barbadians are of African descent. In 1627, English settlers established a colony, which they then develop as a sugar plantation economy using slaves brought from Africa. Native Americans may have first visited or settled the island around 1600 BC.
D. Barbados means "the bearded ones" in Spanish and Portuguese. It is unclear whether it referred to the island’s bearded fig trees or the allegedly bearded Carib Amerindians. Europeans exiled the disease-decimated Cairbs from most Caribbean islands. But, some survivors intermarried with escaped slaves and continued to resist their conquerors.
C. Barbados is not a pure tax haven, but it is a very low-tax environment for offshore corporations and trusts. There are no withholding taxes or capital gains taxes. Taxes on profits of offshore companies are generally in the range of only 1% to 2%. Barbados is considered prosperous in the region, but 20% of its population lives in poverty.
B. The Commonwealth of Nations is an association of 54 sovereign nations, nearly all of them former territories of the British Empire. Barbados also has a defense treaty with Britain (the United Kingdom) as well as with the United States and China.