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.
Sugar being exported from Speightstown Port
Cholera Epidemic subsides
The Advocate newspaper reports on the end of the Grand Court of Sessions