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  2. Yvonne Weekes - Wikipedia

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    Yvonne Weekes is a British-born Montserratian writer, theater director, and educator. She was Montserrat's first director of culture before being forced to move to Barbados during the eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano in the 1990s. Her work deals with issues of displacement and isolation due to environmental and cultural forces beyond ...

  3. Chase Vault - Wikipedia

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    Chase Vault. The Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados, best known for a widespread urban legend of "mysterious moving coffins ". According to the story, each time the heavily sealed marble vault had been opened for the burial of a family member including 1808, twice ...

  4. David Thompson (Barbadian politician) - Wikipedia

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    David Thompson (Barbadian politician) David John Howard Thompson (25 December 1961 [1] – 23 October 2010) was the sixth prime minister of Barbados from 15 January 2008 [2] until his death from pancreatic cancer on 23 October 2010.

  5. Diocese of Barbados - Wikipedia

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    History The diocese was established in 1824 as one of a pair, the other being the Diocese of Jamaica, which covered the whole Caribbean. Before that, the area was nominally part of the Bishop of London's responsibility, a situation that had been assumed to hold from 1660 onwards. The Bishops of London were regarded as having responsibility for the churches in the colonies in the early ...

  6. Sir John Alleyne, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia

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    Alleyne descended from the first settlers on Barbados and was born at St James as the second son of John Alleyne and his wife Mary Terrill, daughter of William Terrill. [1] On 19 October 1746 at St James Church, Barbados, he married Cristen Dottin, fourth daughter of Anne Jordan Dottin and Joseph Dottin, with whom he had a son. [2]

  7. Bussa's rebellion - Wikipedia

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    Bussa's rebellion (14–16 April 1816) was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. The rebellion takes its name from the African-born slave, Bussa, who led the rebellion. The rebellion, which was eventually defeated by the colonial militia, was the first of three mass slave rebellions in the British West Indies that shook public faith in ...

  8. List of World Heritage Sites in Barbados - Wikipedia

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    13°12′38″N 59°34′54″W. /  13.2105°N 59.5818°W  / 13.2105; -59.5818  ( The Scotland District of Barbados) Natural. 2005. [4] The Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and Rum. Christ Church Parish, Saint Andrew Parish, Saint John Parish, Saint Lucy Parish, Saint Peter Parish. 13°16′06″N 59°34′30″W.

  9. National Archives of Barbados - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 13.136552°N 59.634241°W. Barbados National Archives are the national archives of Barbados. It is located in the northern Black Rock, St. Michael close to the University of the West Indies campus adjacent to the Usain Bolt Sports Complex. The collection includes manuscripts, letters, reports, books, maps, charts and photographs.

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