This account from Today in Bajan History recalls a fatal accident investigated in January 1951, as reported by the Barbados Advocate. Fifty-five-year-old Gladstone Brown of St. George died after falling from the back of a lorry transporting heavy bales along Constance Road.
Suspected smallpox on the island.
The Barbados Advocate reported that The Dearwood ship had apparently gone missing
Incidents of lawlessness are raised in the local news paper.