On October 6, 1950, the Barbados Advocate highlighted calls for a British Red Cross presence in Barbados following the island’s humanitarian support for hurricane-stricken Antigua. Five years later, on October 6, 1955, pioneering Barbadian surgeon Dr. Velma Scantlebury was born. She would go on to become the first Black female transplant surgeon in the United States and perform more than 2,000 transplants.
Protection of Artifacts sites being a must as reported in the Barbados Advocate
The Agricultural Reporter recorded the unusual case of four boys brought before a magistrate after allegedly bathing naked off Fontabelle, where residents complained they...
A report carried in the Barbadian, on this day, shows that the relationship between Barbados and Britain was at some points contentious