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Passport Req'd for Barbados Soon!
The following is from the Barbados Nation newspaper:
Passport, please! - Sunday 21, December-2003 by Tony Best FROM NEXT MARCH, all visitors to Barbados will be required to travel with a passport. At a time of heightened global security, Barbados is boosting its safety measures by introducing this measure. From March 1, the practice of North Americans coming here on a driver?s licence and a birth certificate will end. Rob McChlery, Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) senior business development manager in the United States, told the Sunday Sun the BTA was informing tour operators, airlines, travel agencies and others in the ?travel trade? that the move was being made in the interest of safety and security. ?We currently allow American and Canadian citizens to enter Barbados without a valid passport, but on presentation of a photo identification card, which is usually a driver?s licence along with a birth certificate,? he said. The policy was introduced in the early 1970s in order to boost tourist arrivals. Since then, most Caribbean destinations have introduced it. ?This practice is going to end on March 1. We don?t believe it is going to present us with any great difficulty because research has shown that less than one per cent of arrivals from North American countries travel to Barbados without a valid passport. ?The figure indicates that North American visitors have already become accustomed to travelling with a passport as a means of identification to get not simply into Barbados, but any country. That approach has become even more necessary after the events of September 11, 2001,? said McChlery. ?It?s clear that Barbados, like its neighbours and many other states, must place security issues higher on their list of priorities. After all, both the United States and Canada and most airlines now demand that each passenger should have a valid passport.? Orrin - www.orrin.org/ Linux by SuSE... a world without Windows |
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Passport Req'd for Barbados Soon!
Don Wiss wrote:
On 22 Dec 2003 18:11:09 -0800, (Orrin) posted: The following is from the Barbados Nation newspaper: FROM NEXT MARCH, all visitors to Barbados will be required to travel with a passport. And will be optically or electronically read. What we will have is all country's immigration and airline systems communicating people's coming and goings between them. Then they can control for people not arriving in the country they have declared as their destination. No diversions. Controlled travel. Don donwiss at panix.com. You say that like it's a bad thing, or really a change... If someone says they're going to 'x' and winds up in "y", I'd be suspicious. Honestly, I can't see any valid reason. Even long distance cruisers (on small sailboats) get hassled if their papers didn't have "here" as their intended destination. Your comings and goings are tracked by the airlines anyway. No, the feds (in whatever country) don't have direct access, but the airlines' systems are better connected than just about any two countries, much less all of them. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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