NEW YORK (Standard & Poor's CreditWire) Feb. 3, 2000-- Standard & Poor's full analysis of Barbados is now available on the ratings services' Web site at www.standardandpoors.com/ratings. To access the report from the main page, select Sovereign Ratings then Sample Sovereign Ratings Service Full Analysis. The report is also available on RatingsDirect, Standard & Poor's Web-based credit analysis system. On Dec. 17, 1999, Standard & Poor's assigned its initial sovereign credit ratings to Barbados. Standard & Poor's assigned its single-'A'-minus long-term and 'A-2' short-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings and its double-'A'-minus long-term and 'A-1'-plus short-term local currency sovereign credit ratings to Barbados. The outlook on the long-term ratings is stable. The higher local currency ratings reflect the sovereign's powers
