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The Advocate ("Barbados Advocate") is the second most dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados. First established in 1895, the Advocate is the longest continually published newspaper in the country. Printed in colour, the Advocate covers a wide array of topics including: business, sports, entertainment news, politics, editorials, and special features. In addition the Barbados ...
^ Thompson, Ingrid (2019). "Digitisation of the Historic Newspaper, The Barbadian (EAP1251)". Endangered Archives Programme. www.bl.uk. EAP1251. British Library. doi: 10.15130/EAP1251. Retrieved 17 April 2021. The Barbadian (1822-1863). The newspaper covers the transition from the colonial, pre-modern to the modern era, including the Emancipation (1834), and the end of the apprenticeship ...
Health issues and death. Wikinews has related news: Prime Minister of Barbados David Thompson dies at age 48. At a media briefing at his official Ilaro Court residence on 14 May 2010, Thompson, accompanied by his personal physician, Richard Ishmael, said that he had been suffering with stomach pains since early March.
The mass media in Barbados have had a long history of being entitled to an open policy by the Government, and by the citizenry with respect to press Freedoms. Barbados has a collection of local and foreign owned media entities providing the country with varying views via newspaper, magazine, television, or radio communications. [1] [2]
Foster began working for the Caribbean News Agency in Bridgetown as the senior reporter and editor (1975–77), and the Barbados Advocate News as the reporter and columnist (1977–79), Foster emigrated to Canada in 1979. He went on to work for the Toronto Star as a reporter (1979–82).
In February 2005 the Government of Barbados announced its intention to hold a referendum on the republic issue. [5] It introduced a Referendum Bill that month. [5] The Bill was passed into law as the Referendum Act in October 2005. The Act did not set a date for the referendum but instead specified that the "Referendum Day" could be proclaimed by the governor-general, being no more than 90 ...
Julian Rogers was born of Guyanese parentage in Bridgetown, Barbados, and was educated at Cooperative High School, Barbados (1960–64), where he was a Foundation Scholarship winner. He attended the University of the West Indies, Caribbean Institute of Mass Media at Mona, Jamaica (1974–75), on a UNESCO scholarship, receiving a Diploma in Mass Communications for his thesis "The creation of an ...
Sandra Prunella Mason was born on 17 January 1949 [3] in Saint Philip, Barbados. [4] After studying at St. Catherine's Primary School until age nine, she attended secondary school at Queen's College, [5] then began teaching at the Princess Margaret Secondary School in 1968. [6] The following year, she worked at Barclays Bank as a clerk. Mason enrolled in the University of the West Indies at ...