Started publishing November 23, 1973

First Barbadian Newspaper with full colour comics in 1977

Circulation Data - Sundays (51,440) Daily 31,533

Number of Employees - 215

President - Harold Hoyte

Management List

List of Directors

Book About The Nation - Against The Odds by Harry Mayers is available from the Nation Fontabelle

Plant Locations : Fontabelle, Bridgetown, St. Michael Barbados

Tel. 246- 430-5400

Fax: 246-427-6968

First Barbadian Newspaper with full colour comics in 1977

The first Barbadian Company to stage night cricket-25th October 1980

The first company to stage the largest cycling event-Nation Fun Ride 1991

The first company to stage the largest walking event -Nation Fun Walk 1988

The first edition of THE NATION, with a projected pagination of 16 pages, ended up at 48 pages and a print run of 20 000, instead of the originally planned 10 000.

THE NATION was the first Barbadian newspaper with full colour comics (1977).

THE NATION, which provided extensive coverage of regional events, beginning with the pre-independence disturbances in Grenada in February 1974, was the first Barbadian newspaper to send a reporter and photographer to cover a cricket tour of England (1984).

THE NATION was the first Barbadian newspaper to fully computerise its operations (1995).

THE NATION, first published in November 1973, reached news-stands 243 years after the Barbados Gazette, the first newspaper to be published in the Caribbean.