Institution
Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)
The Democratic Labour Party is a political party of Barbados, founded in 1955 by Errol Barrow and other dissidents from Grantley Adams's Barbados Labour Party. It won the 1961 elections, and under Barrow led Barbados to independence on 30 November 1966. Since then it has alternated peacefully in government with the Barbados Labour Party.
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