This Today in Bajan History segment marks January 16, 1925, the day Grantley Adams was admitted to the Bar in Barbados, a milestone in the life of one of the island’s most influential national figures. Born in 1898 to educator parents, Adams was academically distinguished, earning a Barbados Scholarship and studying classics and law at Oxford University.
An act of terrorism resulted in the crash of a Cuban Airline which crashed just off the west coast of Barbados.
Free black and free cloured charged for rioting
The Barbadian reports on a trial about murder on the high seas.