Barbados hosted a 70-member delegation from the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) for its spring meeting, marking a key moment in the island’s tourism development. eported in the Barbados Advocate, the visitors—along with accompanying family members—received a vibrant Barbadian welcome at Seawell Airport, complete with steelpan music and local rum punch.
Calton Haynes was born. Listen to learn more.
Dr Thomas Ralph gives an eyewitness account of the Joan and John festival put on by the enslaved
A report in the Barbadian, on the proposed technological improvement of using steam to power local boats.