The Barbados Advocate reported on the opening of Barbados' first Police Girls' Club at Clevers Hill, St. Joseph. The initiative formed part of a wider effort by the police force to establish youth clubs across the island, providing positive activities and guidance for young people. Commissioner of Police Colonel R.T. Michelin envisioned a club in every parish and emphasized that police officers should be seen as advisors and helpers rather than figures to be feared.
The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette brought to their reader's attention a number of runaway enslaved persons
Barbadians were not docile slaves as many myths would suggest.
This Today in Bajan History segment recalls February 14, 1843, when a highly anticipated regatta in Carlisle Bay turned tragic