🇧🇧🎉 Barbados Independence Day – History and Heritage Barbados marks its Independence Day every 30th November, a date chosen to align with St. Andrews Day and reflect national symbolism. The island became independent in 1966 following elections that placed the Democratic Labour Party in government. Its Coat of Arms, presented earlier that year, features Pride of Barbados flowers, a bearded fig tree and supporters linked to fishing and the former Pelican Island. The crossed sugar cane pieces he