{"name":"Applied AI in Barbados — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Barbados, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/barbados","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Barbados","slug":"barbados","iso2":"BB","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":8,"deployments":4,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":4,"industries":5,"countries":1,"linked":8},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Barbados","role":"University lecturers and examiners","org":"The University of the West Indies","text":"University of the West Indies is rolling out IntegraGuard, an AI integrity checker developed with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), on every campus this academic year. Cave Hill principal Professor Clive Landis pairs the academic integrity software with interviews, presentations and in-person exams, while UWI policy wants learners AI literate. An IT specialist warns original work could still be wrongly flagged and punished.","date":"2026-09-30","source":"https://barbadostoday.bb/2026/09/30/uwi-adopts-ai-tool-amid-fears-of-false-accusations/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Barbados","org":"Caribbean Examinations Council","text":"The Caribbean Examinations Council is dropping school-based assessments in non-practical subjects for Paper 032, sat under invigilation, blaming fast-spreading generative artificial intelligence; the CXC AI policy came from Barbados, 16 July 2026. Losers include Mathematics, English, Caribbean History, Social Studies and Principles of Business, while Agricultural Science, Visual Arts, Music and other hands-on courses retain theirs. Regional exam AI rules hit CAPE from May-June 2027 and bind CSEC by May-June 2028. Registrar Dr Wayne Wesley called qualification integrity non-negotiable.","date":"2026-07-16","source":"https://barbadostoday.bb/2026/07/17/cxc-to-replace-sbas-with-invigilated-paper-amid-ai-concerns/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Barbados","role":"Consumer affairs officer","org":"Ministry of Energy and Business, Barbados","text":"The Ministry of Energy and Business launched AI shopping assistant Ask Dealia on 15 July 2026 at the Warrens Office Complex, St Michael, Barbados. Infolytics built the app, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs runs the service, and agent Dealia mines shoppers' conversations for bargains alongside live supermarket prices, promotions, events and personalised recommendations. Infolytics chief executive Quinn Weekes counts 400,000-plus products, 2,000 companies on the AI price-comparison tool.","date":"2026-07-15","source":"https://barbadostoday.bb/2026/07/15/ask-dealia-app-launches-to-help-find-deals-events/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Barbados","role":"Secondary school student","org":"RF Merchant Bank & Trust (Barbados) Limited / WizdomCRM","text":"RF Merchant Bank & Trust (Barbados) Limited has widened AI financial literacy at Harrison College, whose 300-plus entrants push the Sustainable Stock Market Artificial Intelligence Game to almost 800 pupils with The Lodge School and Combermere School. Caribbean tech firm WizdomCRM delivers the game, backed by the Ministry of Education Transformation. Virtual portfolios tracking domestic and overseas exchanges cover financial planning, market trends and investing via artificial intelligence-powered learning tools, AI-assisted investing lessons widening on 8 May 2026.","date":"2026-05-08","source":"https://barbadostoday.bb/2026/05/15/students-gain-investing-experience-through-stock-market-ai-programme/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Barbados","org":"Barbados Accreditation Council","text":"New guidance from the Barbados Accreditation Council (BAC), the Guiding Principles for the Use of Emerging Technologies in Post-Secondary/Tertiary Education, sets rules for AI in post-secondary/tertiary education. Explainability and human intervention must underpin automated calls, with assessment resting mainly on human judgement. Fairness, data security and equitable access complete this early marker of AI adoption in tertiary education.","date":"2025-07-10","source":"https://bac.gov.bb/guiding-principles-for-the-use-of-emerging-technologies-in-post-secondary-tertiary-education/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Barbados","role":"Physician","org":"Urgent Care Medical Centre","text":"Urgent Care Medical Centre is trialling AI chest pain diagnosis and forecasting software from Scopium AI. Early-stage checks started at St George, with full clinical evaluation in July. Davidson Ishmael, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, views the AI cardiac screening as a Caribbean first for Barbados.","date":"2025-06","source":"https://health.gov.bb/News/Press-Releases/New-AI-Technology-To-Predict-Diagn"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Barbados","org":"Caribbean Court of Justice","text":"Barbados's CCJ court published Practice Direction No. 1 of 2025, setting rules for generative AI in court proceedings across the Caribbean Court of Justice's jurisdiction. Attorneys, parties, witnesses and self-represented litigants must verify GenAI-generated citations and meet accuracy and professional responsibility standards under the new framework. The step gives judges an early template for handling AI-assisted filings region-wide.","date":"2025-02-14","source":"https://ccj.org/ccj-issues-new-practice-direction/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Barbados","org":"Central Bank of Barbados","text":"The Central Bank of Barbados set supervisory expectations for AI risk management in banking through its Technology and Cyber Risk Management Guideline (TCRM), issued 5 May 2023, covering cyber threats tied to automated systems and duties to classify and report cyber incidents. This frames cyber governance for AI-driven banking systems as a regulatory priority.","date":"2023-05-05","source":"https://www.centralbank.org.bb/news/financial-advisory/introduction-of-the-technology-and-cyber-risk-management-guideline-tcrm"}]}