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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 ...
Barbados Recorder. Barbados Standard. Barbados Times. The Beacon. Bridgetown Gazette[4] Caribbean Week. The General Intelligence. The Investigator. The Penny Paper.
Clennell Wilsden Wickham (21 September 1895 – 6 October 1938) was a radical West Indian journalist, editor of Barbadian newspaper The Herald and champion of black, working-class causes against the white planter oligarchy in colonial Barbados during the inter-war period, leading to the social unrest that triggered the Riots of 26 July 1937.
The island was briefly claimed by the Spanish Empire who saw trees with a beard like feature (hence the name Barbados), and then by Portugal from 1532 to 1620. The island was an English and later a British colony from 1625 until 1966. Sugar cane cultivation in Barbados began in the 1640s, which saw the increasing importation of black slaves ...
Sandra Mason. Dame Sandra Prunella Mason FB GCMG DA SC (born 17 January 1949) is a Barbadian politician, lawyer, and diplomat who is serving as the first president of Barbados since 2021. She was previously the eighth and final governor-general of Barbados from 2018 to 2021, the second woman to hold the office. On 20 October 2021, Mason was ...
William F. Duguid. Personal details. Born. ( 1933-03-20) 20 March 1933 (age 91) Christ Church, Colony of Barbados. Political party. Barbados Labour Party. Sir Henry de Boulay Forde (born 20 March 1933) is a Barbadian retired politician and lawyer who served as the Leader of the Opposition from 1986 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1993.
v. t. e. On 30 November 2021, Barbados transitioned from a parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the hereditary monarch of Barbados (Queen Elizabeth II) to a parliamentary republic with a ceremonial indirectly elected president as head of state. [1] The prime minister remained head of government while the last governor-general, Dame ...
t. e. General elections were held in Barbados on 13 December 1948. [1] The Barbados Labour Party remained the largest party, winning 12 of the 24 seats in the House of Assembly .