The Barbadian carried a message from Governor Sir William Colebrooke stressing the urgent need for a reliable water supply for Bridgetown. Still reeling from the devastating Broad Street fire of 1845, the city remained without an adequate piped water system, despite earlier proposals for a water company.
This Today in Bajan History account recalls a disturbing legal case reported in the Barbados Agricultural Reporter on February 6, 1915, involving a 14-year-old...
Geoffrey Alan "Geoff" Greenidge the cricketer was born.
Free black and free cloured charged for rioting