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The Barbados Advocate: Consumer services Publishing Bridgetown: 1895 Newspaper The Daily Nation: Consumer services Publishing Bridgetown: 1973 Newspaper, part of ONE Caribbean Media (Trinidad and Tobago) Trans Island Air 2000: Consumer services Airlines Christ Church: 1982 Airline, defunct 2004 Voice of Barbados: Consumer services Broadcasting ...
Rachael Pringle Polgreen (1753–1791) was an Afro-Barbadian hotelier and brothel owner. Born into slavery, her freedom was purchased, and she became the owner of the Royal Naval Hotel, a brothel that catered to the itinerant military personnel on the island of Barbados . She was one of the first mulatto women to operate a business in the colony.
The Garfield Sobers Gymnasium (or occasionally the "Wildey Gym") is one of the main government-owned indoor sporting facilities located in the country of Barbados. Able to accommodate close to 5,000 people, it is situated northeast of the ABC Highway within the Sir Gary Sobers Sports Complex. Normally hosting many student, professional as well ...
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]
KRS-One - real name Lawrence Parker, rapper. Afrika Bambaataa - musician [5] Damon Dash - co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records; Stacey Dash's cousin. Grandmaster Flash - hip hop musician and DJ. Dave East - rapper. Faith Evans - singer and actress. Doug E. Fresh - hip hop musician. Desiigner - hip hop musician/rapper.
Combermere School is a school in Barbados, notable as one of the oldest schools in the Caribbean, established in 1695. [1] Its alumni include several leading cricketers, David Thompson, sixth prime minister of Barbados and other politicians, several authors and the singer Rihanna. In its first 75 years, the school "provided the Barbadian ...
Owen Arthur. Owen Seymour Arthur PC (17 October 1949 – 27 July 2020) [5] [6] was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. [6] He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1 August 1993 to 6 September 1994 ...
HM Glendairy Prison. Coordinates: 13.1100°N 59.6027°W. Formerly US Naval Base. Cell Block "B" Harrison's Point Prisons-Barbados. Glendairy Prison, also called Her Majesty's Prison, was the correctional facility located in the country of Barbados. The prison, which housed up to 1,000 male and female inmates, was located in Station Hill, St ...