Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Gwamnatin Barrow ta nemi fadada tattalin arzikin daga aikin gona, tana neman bunkasa masana'antu da bangaren yawon bude ido. Barbados kuma ya kasance a sahun gaba na kokarin hadewar yanki, yana jagorantar kirkirar CARIFTA da CARICOM. DLP ta rasa babban zaben Barbadian na 1976 zuwa BLP karkashin Tom Adams. Adams ya ɗauki ra'ayi mai ra'ayin mazan jiya kuma mai goyon bayan Yammacin Turai, yana ba wa Amurkawa damar amfani da Barbados a matsayin tashar jirgin ruwa don
mamayewar Grenada a shekarar 1983. Adams ya mutu a ofishin a 1985 kuma Harold Bernard St. John ya maye gurbinsa, duk da haka ya rasa babban zaben Barbadian na 1986 wanda ya ga dawowar DLP a karkashin Errol Barrow, wanda ya yi matukar sukar sa hannun Amurka a Grenada. Duk da haka Barrow ma ya mutu a ofishin, kuma Lloyd Erskine Sandiford ya maye gurbinsa wanda ya kasance Firayim Minista har zuwa 1994.