[1] The real estate industry may also tend to cater to most categories of home buyers and likewise may use both metric and imperial standards of measure.
The BNSI was a joint collaboration of the Government of Barbados[1] along Mr. Davis and Mr. Gordon Watson from UNIDO.
Weights and Measures in Barbados were defined through the act of Parliament of the same name that dated back to 1891.
It was by-and-large made up of former British Imperial units of measurement, save for local peculiarities.
Due to this and other complexities of the market, the government enacted in 1977 an Act of Parliament to switch Barbados to the International Standards of Units (SI).