Icilma Marsh is still a fitness enthusiast at 101 years old. She goes to the Surfside Wellness Centre three times a week and is the darling of other gym enthusiasts who marvel at her still pedalling on the circuit bike. Born in Carters, St. John, Icilma attended...
Mary Viviane Phillips was born in St. Lucia but migrated to Barbados at an early age. Formerly of 1st Avenue Pinelands near St. Barnabas, St. Michael, Ms. Phillips was a resident of the St. Michael Geriatric Hospital before being transferred to the Roy Wardeen...
Cuthbert Chesterfield Cumberbatch was born at Black Bess, St. Peter. With no formal education, he worked as a labourer at the Mangrove and Richmond Plantations in the same parish. In 1947, he married Mildred Cumberbatch and had six children, one deceased. ...
Ismay Weekes was the mother of six children, three of whom are still alive. One with a sharp memory, she remembered the birthdays of all 19 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 45 great-great grandchildren. Daughter Erma Rivers described her mother as...
Lilian Downes was born in Leadvale, Christ Church and moved to 4th Avenue Hart’s Gap, in the same parish in her early 30’s. She worked as a domestic in her younger days and in the early 1950’s she opened a small shop at her home and sold dry goods, kerosene oil...
