This Today in Bajan History segment highlights a milestone in overseas employment and skills training for Barbadians, reported in the Barbados Advocate on January 30, 1952. The article noted that four ABC-rated seamen had departed Barbados via BWIA to Curaçao to begin work with the Shell oil tanker fleet.
Calton Haynes was born. Listen to learn more.
On August 1, 1950, the Barbados Advocate marked the ninth anniversary of the Barbados Workers’ Union, highlighting its growth since 1941 and its expanding...
A report carried in the Barbadian, on this day, shows that the relationship between Barbados and Britain was at some points contentious