I am Charlene Holder, project officer at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus. On this day, November 5th, 1950, the Barbados Advocate published an advertisement entitled, Bridgetown Belongs to You, Therefore Keep It Clean. The ad promoted the CBC. A competition that encouraged suggestions from the public for a cleaner Bridgetown. Precisely, suggestions of not more than 200 words were welcomed by December 1st with the best suggestion to be decided by a panel of three judges and awarded $25.
A request for the restoration of morals and order in the country
Barbados faced wartime shortages, rising food prices, and growing concerns over supply management during World War I.
The foundation stone for the Harrisons Point lithouse is laid by the then governor of Babarbados Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles O'Brian