Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart will deliver the keynote address at the ninth annual Errol Barrow Memorial Dinner to be held at the Markham Convention Centre in Toronto on Saturday, September 24. (Errol “Dipper” Barrow was the first prime minister of Barbados. He founded the Democratic Labour Party and became its leader in 1958. Barrow […]
Acclaimed Barbados-born author Austin Tom Clarke who died on June 26 last, was remembered at his funeral last Friday as a man whose life ” defies summation.” Delivering the eulogy at the Cathedral church of St. James in downtown Toronto, Rinaldo Walcott, an associate professor of sociology and equity studies at the University of Toronto, […]
Since its inception in 1995, A Different Booklist bookstore has had the distinct pleasure of launching Austin’s entire book in Canada. In 2014, A Different Booklist, in partnership with the Government of Barbados and Harbourfront Centre, dedicated a bench in the Ontario Square in honor of Austin Clarke, a Grandfather of Canadian and Commonwealth literature. […]
Austin Clark was born Barbados in 1934 and then went to Canada, in 1955. While in Canada he attended a university. Clark has worked as a broadcaster, a professor, and a civil rights leader. His works exhibit the poverty of peasants in Barbados and his immigrant experiences to Canada. Austin Clark died today in […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Minister of the Environment and Drainage Dr. Denis Lowe is the new vice-president for the Latin America and Caribbean region on the Bureau of the Second UN Environment Assembly (UNEA). He was elected during the global environment policy-making forum in Nairobi, Kenya. Lowe will hold office for two years, and join his […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Jerome Stuart was conferred with Guyana’s second highest award, the Order of Roraima (OR), by President David Granger at a simple investiture ceremony at State House. The President, who was advised by the chairman and members of the Advisory Council of the Orders of Guyana, said the conferral […]
The funeral service for Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier – known as Tony Cozier – the Barbados and West Indian cricket writer, commentator and journalist who died May 11 in his home country Barbados at 75, will be tomorrow (May 20) at Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens, The Ridge in Christ Church. Cremation to follow. According […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – As Barbados signed two treaties – one an extradition agreement – with China, it was revealed that law enforcement authorities in the island earlier this year assisted in the recent arrest of two Chinese fugitives for whom the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) had issued warrants. While he gave no details about […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Brazil is the newest member country of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). It is the CDB’s 28th member and the fourth non-borrowing regional member, joining Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela in that category. The announcement was made at the CDB’s first Board of Directors meeting for 2016, earlier this month. “We are […]
