Author: Tyrone Roach
“To do so would provide an opportunity to strengthen social cohesion in the country.” Rev Guy Hewitt, a former Barbadian High Commissioner in London and the Church of England’s Racial Justice Director, has recently made an impassioned plea to recognise Emancipation Day in the UK. His influential role and experience lend weight to his call, which he made during an inaugural commemorative Emancipation Day Service in London. In his address, Rev Hewit said, “As we approach the ten-year countdown to the bicentenary of the Slavery Abolition (Emancipation) Act, which took effect on 1 August 1834, I urge for the recognition…
Barbadian Shane Thomas told his audience that Barbados has ambitions to become a “digitally enabled nation” and is well on track to achieving the goal of one hundred per cent renewable energy generation by 2030, delivering a carbon-net-neutral target. He updated them on the various exploration sectors, including niche manufacturing, global banking, information and computer technology (ICT), global education, food and drink, wealth management, insurance, renewable energy, and medical tourism.
A murder investigation has been launched after 15-year-old Rene Graham was killed in Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park at around 19:20hrs on Sunday, 21st July.
He was born in 1974 to a Barbadian father, Colvin, and a St. Lucian mother, Geneva, in Little Venice Maida Vale West London. As a small child, he was completely mute and found it hard to relate to other people. He had no language and lived entirely in his world. At the age of three, he was diagnosed with Autism the same year his father died in a motorbike accident.
By Tyrone Roach The death of a 15-year-old youngster, Rene Graham, devastated the local community and brought a premature end to the annual Park Lime in locally named Teletubbies Park with a crowd of over a thousand persons liming with friends mainly from the surrounding areas. Many stalls were unable to remove themselves from the area, as it soon became a crime scene. In its Press release, it said, “It is with a heavy heart that the CMA Management Team and members of the Caribbean Music Association (CMA) express their deepest condolences to the family and friends of 15-year-old Rene…
On Friday, 1st August, Anglophone Caribbean nations commemorate Emancipation Day, marking the 1834 abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the 1838 abolition of apprenticeship. This system forced formerly enslaved people to continue to work uncompensated for their former masters.
Retired electrician Barbadian Richard Braithwaite was fatally stabbed on Cromwell Road in Wembley, Middlesex.
The Chief Justice has lambasted the law programme at the University of the West Indies (UWI), saying it was suffering from “intellectual attrition” and was only interested in “getting people over the bar”.
UK Black community are among those who took to social media to quickly condemn remarks by one of the ruling Conservative Party’s largest donors.
Vanita suffered from 28 fresh rib fractures and six fractures of her spine, alongside extensive bruising to her face, head and body.