Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Hurumende yaBarrow yakatsvaka kuita kuti upfumi hwenyika huve hwakasiyana-siyana ichisiya kurima, ichitsvaka kusimudzira indasitiri uye basa rokushanyirwa. Barbados yakanga iriwo pamberi penhamburiko dzokubatanidzwa kwedunhu, ichitungamirira kugadzirwa kweCARIFTA neCARICOM. DLP yakarasikirwa nesarudzo huru dza1976 dzeBarbadian kuBLP pasi paTom Adams. Adams akagamuchira chimiro chakanyatsochengetedzeka uye chakanyatsotsigira nyika dzokuMadokero, achibvumira vaAmerica kushandisa Barbados senzvimbo yokumhanyira nokuda kwehondo dzavo.
kupinda muGrenada muna 1983. Adams akafa ari muhofisi muna 1985 uye akatsiviwa naHarold Bernard St. John, zvisinei akarasikirwa nesarudzo huru yeBarbadian ya1986 iyo yakaona kudzoka kweDLP pasi paErrol Barrow, uyo akanga achitsoropodza zvikuru kupindira kweUnited States muGrenada. Zvisinei Barrow akafawo ari muhofisi, uye akatsiviwa naLloyd Erskine Sandiford uyo akaramba ari Mutungamiriri weHurumende kusvika muna 1994.