Barbados and Ghana’s Cape Coast set to sign twinning agreement

Minister of Labour, Social Security and the Third Sector Colin Jordan says Barbados is on the verge of signing a twinning agreement with Cape Coast, Ghana, to commemorate a significant historical connection between the two places.

He was speaking at the official opening ceremony of Dico African Restaurant & Bar in Carrington Village, St Michael, the first registered African restaurant and bar in Barbados.

Minister Jordan says the idea for the agreement stems from events during the seventeenth century, when, during the period of the transatlantic slave trade, there was a plan to overthrow slave owners and name an African as king of Barbados.