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The opposition Democratic Labour Party (DLP), led by attorney David Thompson, achieved a decisive return to power in January 2008 when it defeated the incumbent Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in the Barbados general election; the DLP captured 20 seats in the House of Assembly to the BLP’s 10. Nine BLP ministers lost their seats, though party leader Owen Arthur retained his. Barbados reaffirmed in February its decision not to join Venezuelan Pres.

Hugo Chávez’s PetroCaribe initiative, under which Caracas provided petroleum products and crude oil to Caricom countries on a deferred-payment basis for a portion of supplies. Prime Minister Thompson called on his Caricom colleagues in June to draw up a common energy policy. That same month Barbados asked the United Nations to agree to a further extension of its 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) by another 150 miles, as provided under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It was only two years earlier that the UNCLOS arbitration panel had defined the EEZ limits between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. In July, Venezuelan Energy Minister Rafael Ramírez publicly declared that 2 of the 24 blocks in Barbados’s first offshore block auction were partly in Venezuelan waters. Officials said that this revelation could have implications for the success of the auction. (DAVID RENWICK)


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