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Iconic Racehorse Trainer Announces Retirement Iconic racehorse trainer Sir Michael Stoute, 77, has announced his retirement at the end of the season. The ten-times Champion…

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.

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.

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”.

Barbados is a sovereign island nation in the Lesser Antilles with just 431 square kilometres (166 sq mi) of land area. The country was claimed…

This policy affects UK pensioners in all Caribbean countries, except Barbados and Jamaica, and many other current or former Commonwealth countries. Many former British colonies are impacted, while the Philippines and the USA are not.