'GMA's' Weekend Window Opens to Barbuda

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Visit one of Barbuda's white or pink sand beaches, and odds are you'll find yourself there alone. That's because Barbuda, unlike its more populated neighbor Antigua, has one of the smallest populations in the Caribbean. Only about 1,500 people call this small island home.

"You know it's just a place of great beauty -- natural beauty -- not created by man," said Mackenzie Frank, a Barbudan senator. "You get that feeling here of rest, of comfort."

Barbuda, located in the Eastern Caribbean, was first inhabited by Amerindians from South America before being colonized by the British in 1666. Later, in 1685, the island was leased to the Codrington family for a price of "one fatted sheep on demand." The Codringtons used the island to produce food and slave labor for their sugar plantations on neighboring Antigua, and today the island is part of the small nation of Antigua and Barbuda.


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