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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 ...
Barbadian [3]; Barbados Agricultural Reporter; Barbados Gazette - Barbados' first newspaper, established 1731.; Barbados Globe & Colonial Advocate; Barbados Mercury [4]; Barbados Recorder
Little is known of Clarke's early life. He attended Combermere School in Barbados. [1] He won an island scholarship to study medicine at Cambridge University. [2] He arrived in London on 28 September 1914, just after the outbreak of World War I, having travelled on the RMS Tagus, [3] which, after this journey, became a hospital ship. [4]
As news of Thompson's death spread, regional and international dignitaries expressed their condolences. [27] [28] to the Thompson family and the nation. [29] Pope Benedict XVI was among those offering condolences for the Prime Minister and stated that he "invokes God's blessings upon the late Prime Minister's family and the people of Barbados."
Henry de Boulay Forde was born on 20 March 1933 on Water Street, Christ Church, Barbados to a working class family and attended Christ Church Boys’ Foundation School for the start of his secondary education, [1] from which he won a scholarship to Harrison College, the premier boys' secondary school of the island, from which he won the Barbados Scholarship in Classics which took him to Christ ...
Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands GCMG [1] KStJ [2] KA QC (5 August 1926 [3] – 11 October 2017) was a Barbadian judge who served as the sixth Governor-General of Barbados.He held this office from 1996, when he was appointed after the death of Nita Barrow, until he retired on 31 October 2011.
Freundel Jerome Stuart, OR, PC, SC (born 27 April 1951) [1] [2] is a Barbadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Barbados and the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 23 October 2010 to 21 February 2013; and from 21 February 2013 to 25 May 2018.
In the late 1970s, King served as Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations, as well as a legal counsel for the Democratic Labour Party. [3] [4] He served as Attorney-General of Barbados from 1986 to 1989. [2] He then went on to head the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business from 1989 to 1993.