BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Barbados

Degraded 2/2 hosts up since Oct 17, 2026 14:20 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Barbados since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of Barbados RSS feed

Where our monitored hosts are Each dot is a place with monitored hosts; bigger dots have more. The country is shaded in its status now.
2incidents recorded
12 daystotal disruption
12 dayslongest incident
25outages measured since 2022
0reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Aug 1, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days
Oct 16Oct 230%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290 ms150 ms300 ms
Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Oct 17, 2026 14:20ongoing Degradedonly 2 monitored hosts — too few for a verdict · BGP routes at 91% of normal
Oct 16, 2026 10:2510 hours Degraded3 of 3 monitored hosts reachable · BGP routes at 91% of normal

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at Barbados · 7 days

Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Types
Mirai (UDP) Flood 50% · UDP Flood 47% · Invalid ENet Flood 2% · DNS Flood 0%
Duration
19% longer than 1 h · 77% under 20 min
Size
53% under 500 Mbit/s · 2% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
Columbus Telecommunications (Barbados) Limited 68% · Digicel Barbados 31% · Digicel Jamaica 1%

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

25 incidents · 6 blackouts · 10 partial outages

Outages in Barbados detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Oct 15, 2026 22:2050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 8% of normal
Oct 11, 2026 18:153 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Sep 27, 2026 17:501 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 11:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 25% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 36% of normal
Feb 10, 2026 00:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Oct 9, 2025 06:302 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Jul 24, 2025 08:5020 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 8% of normal
Jul 11, 2025 06:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Jul 10, 2025 23:003 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Apr 30, 2025 16:4040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 66% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 31% of normal
Show all 25
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Mar 25, 2025 22:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:4040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 90% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 14:5040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 89% of normal
Nov 5, 2024 19:502 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Oct 5, 2024 09:202 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 57% of normal
Jul 16, 2024 16:0032 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 88% of normal
Jul 1, 2024 14:4050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Feb 3, 2024 11:0040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 62% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:403 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 14% of normal
Apr 4, 2023 16:002 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Mar 2, 2022 07:5030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 94% of normal
Feb 24, 2022 10:153 days Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 78% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in Barbados since 2019.

Provided by Internet Society.

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Barbados.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.