• 14 - 20 January 2002 - Barbados Jazz Festival - some of the world's best talent in a week long explosion of jazz.
• 5 March 2002 - Holder's Opera season begins - a unique celebration of opera, music and theatre, major event on the world cultural calendar.
• 30 March - 1 April 2002 - Oistins Fish Festival - celebrates the life and contribution made by this fishing town to the overall development of the island. The programme includes fishing, boat racing, fish boning competitions, a Coast Guard Exhibition, food stalls, arts and crafts, dancing, singing and road races.
• 22 April 2002 - Congaline Street Festival begins - a nine-day carnival, daily exhibition forum and marketplace for a myriad of free entertainment and local articrafts and culture.
• 19 May 2002 - Celtic Festival - an annual celebration of culture as Celtic people from around the world visit Barbados for their annual gymanfa-ganu and other events including sports.
• 19-26 May 2002 - Gospelfest - An international festival that attracts major Gospel talent mainly from the USA, UK and the Caribbean.
• 22 - 27 May 2002 - The Barbados African-American Film Festival
• 13 July - 5 Aug 2002 - Crop Over Festival - originally a celebration at the end of the sugar cane harvest season, it's Barbados' most popular and colourful festival. Folk concerts, calypso competitions, carnival parades - a spectacular time!
• 20 -26 October - Blowing in de Windies - Public Schools Caribbean Rugby Tournament - Under 19 & Public Schools Band Festival. Schools are invited from USA, South Africa, Canada and UK.
• October 2002 - Pan in Paradise - International steelband competition for juniors. Groups expected from US, Holland, Switzerland, Japan, Florida and Caribbean.
• 1 November 2002 - National Independence Festival of Creative Arts

Cricket

• July 2002 - Sir Garfield Sobers Schools Cricket Tournament Fourteenth Anniversary
• October 2002 - Fred Rumsey Cricket Festival
• November 2002 - Sir Garfield Sobers Seniors Cricket Festival

Golf

• March 2002 - Royal Westmoreland Barbados Open
• 21 - 24 November - Barbados Open

Horseracing

• 8 February 2002 - The Barbados Gold Cup Festival
• 2 March 2002 - The Barbados Sandy Lane Gold Cup
• August 2002 - United Barbados Derby

Surfing

• 1 - 3 November 2002 - Independence Pro Surfing Championships & Banks Pro Long Board Classic - "Soup Bowl"