Palestine and Barbados signed a joint declaration officially establishing diplomatic relations in a meeting on Tuesday, two months after the Caribbean island announced it would officially recognise a Palestinian state. Palestine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, signed the declaration at the Permanent Mission of Barbados to the UN in New York, alongside his Barbadian counterpart, Francois Jackman. Mansour described the day as “historic” and drew parallels between the Palestinians and the Caribbean nation’s struggle for sovereignty and freedom, as Barbados was a British colony …