Relationship dossier
Barbados
Guyana
Relationship assessment
Barbados and Guyana maintain a cooperative partnership, notably on agriculture and food security.
Barbados toward Guyana
+45The Barbados government entered an agricultural and food-security partnership with Guyana, including plans to use Guyanese land for production linked to Barbados.
Guyana toward Barbados
+45The Guyanese government agreed to make land available for agricultural production linked to Barbados as part of bilateral food-security cooperation.
Overall relationship
+45A bilateral agricultural and food-security partnership provides a concrete basis for sustained cooperation. The initiative is significant, but its implementation and the breadth of other bilateral cooperation remain unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Barbados and Guyana have pursued practical cooperation, particularly on food security and agriculture. Their governments agreed to collaborate on agricultural production, including Guyana making land available for farming linked to Barbados. The partnership reflects a substantive bilateral relationship, although its implementation and breadth beyond this initiative are unclear.
Key developments
Barbados and Guyana agreed to cooperate on agriculture and food security, including making Guyanese land available for production linked to Barbados.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of the agricultural and food-security partnership are unclear.
- Details of cooperation beyond agriculture and food security are limited.