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He also held various leadership positions in regional banks, such as Central Bank of Barbados, Barbados Development Bank and First Caribbean International Bank. [1] He became President of the Senate of Barbados in 1994 and served in that capacity for 14 years. [2] In 1996 he received the highest honour in Barbados, Knight of St. Andrew.
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.
Christopher James Davis. Christopher James Davis. Christopher James Davis (22 April 1840 [1] – 27 November 1870) was a British-Barbadian physician. Educated in Europe, he volunteered to help sick and injured during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and died from smallpox.
Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott KA, GCM, OBE (17 January 1926 – 26 August 2006) was a West Indian cricketer.Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926; all made their Test ...
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 ...
Barbados (UK: / b ɑːr ˈ b eɪ d ɒ s / bar-BAY-doss; US: / b ɑːr ˈ b eɪ d oʊ s / bar-BAY-dohss; locally / b ɑːr ˈ b eɪ d ə s / bar-BAY-dəss) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
Sir Frederick Smith, KA, MBE, QC (6 July 1924 – 11 July 2016) was the former Attorney-General of Barbados and former Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands 1987–1990, President of the Court of Appeal of Grenada [ 1] and assistant Attorney General of British Cameroons. [ 1][ 2][ 3] He was born in Barbados, the son of Cecil Gladstone ...
Born in a wooden shack on Pickwick Gap in Westbury, Saint Michael, Barbados, near Kensington Oval, Weekes was named by his father after English football team Everton (when Weekes told English cricketer Jim Laker this, Laker reportedly replied "It was a good thing your father wasn't a West Bromwich Albion fan.") [3] Weekes was unaware of the source of DeCourcy, his middle name, although he ...