Location Bloomsbury, London Phone +44 20 7299 7150 | High Commissioner Rev. Guy Hewitt | |
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Address 1 Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3ND, UK | ||
The High Commission of Barbados in London is the diplomatic mission of Barbados in the United Kingdom. Among the initial diplomatic missions to be established by Barbados after the attainment of independence from Britain, the office was initially located at 28 Cockspur Street where it shared a joint-mission with Guyana (Formerly British Guiana). In the early 1970s the mission relocated to 6 Upper Belgrave Street, London. Barbados' High Commission remained at that location until the mid 1980s when it moved to its present location at the corner of 1 Great Russell Street in London's Bloomsbury neighbourhood, (within the Borough of Camden). The High Commission is maintained by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Barbados and houses the head-office of the Barbados Maritime Ship Registry (BMSR). The present High Commissioner is Rev. Guy Hewitt, appointed on October 1, 2014, and who replaced Hugh Anthony Arthur.
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The U.K. division of the Barbados Tourism Authority utilises 263 Tottenham Court Road as its address, which is on the western-end of the High Commission building.
In October 2012 the Parliament of Barbados voted on a measure to allocate funds to rehabilitate and refurbish the London High Commission building facility.
Accreditation
The Barbadian High Commissioner in London is also concurrently accredited as non-resident Ambassador to: Holy See (Vatican), Israel, South Africa, and Sweden.
Past High Commissioners
Since Independence, the following High Commissioners have been accredited to the Court of St. James, as follows: