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"Rihanna has signed a three-year marketing deal with the Barbados Tourism Authority to help promote the island as a tourist destination. The &amp;#039;California King Bed&amp;#039; singer will act as an ambassador for the island and will participate in a series of advertising campaigns and promotional appearances to raise tourism in the country. The campaign is due to start on August 5 with one of her &amp;#039;Loud&amp;#039; tour dates in Bridgetown, Barbados, which will be partly produced by both her record label Roc Nation and the Barbados Tourism Authority. &amp;quot;Rihanna is a great source of national pride to Barbados and we are thrilled to enter into this formal partnership to promote Barbados as a leading tourist destination,&amp;quot; said the Hon. Richard L. Sealy, Barbados&amp;#039;s minister of tourism. The 23-year-old recently attracted criticism for her new music video for &amp;#039;Man Down&amp;#039;, with parenting groups arguing that the promo accepts murder and vigilante violence. Rihanna has since thanked her critics for the success of the video after complaints only served to aid the promotion of the clip. Watch the music video for Rihanna&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Man Down&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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