The Barbados Advocate reported on a lecture highlighting the often-overlooked contributions of free women of colour before emancipation. Women such as Rachel Pringle Polgreen and Sarah Ann Gill built businesses, acquired property, supported their families and challenged social barriers. Their enterprise, leadership and resilience helped shape Barbados’ social and economic development.
The Barbadian reports on the arrest of an enslaved for the Murder of a white man
Readers receive the distressing news that two vessels bound for Barbados are unknown.
Bajans fear job loss in Bermuda due to anticipated closure of the Royal Naval Dockyard