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The Official Barbadian Centenarian Website Browse Centenarians ; John Phillips Durant One of Barbados’ latest centenarians, John Phillips Durant, celebrated his birthday on Thursday, April 5, surrounded by loved ones at the St. Michael District Hospital.  He...

About This Project

About this Project Centenarians of Barbados:  The Foundation Builders is a project co-developed by the former National Committee on Ageing, the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and the Barbados Government Information Service. It aims to celebrate Barbadian...
Fitzgerald Brereton BSM, JP

Fitzgerald Brereton BSM, JP

Fitzgerald Brereton is a living testimony of an active senior.  At the age of 100, he still drives, takes leisurely strolls around his neighbourhood at Cottage Heights, Fairview, St. George, and still attends service at St. Luke’s Anglican Church. On the eve of his...
Jessie Cecilia Rudder

Jessie Cecilia Rudder

Jessie Cecilia Rudder was born on December 24, 1921, on the island of Barbados, West Indies.  She is the third of six children born to Phillip and Annie Goddard of Halls Road, St. Michael.  She completed her secular education at Church Village School.  She married...
Alberta Wells

Alberta Wells

Ms. Alberta Wells celebrated a significant milestone on April 22, 2017, when she turned 102 years old.  Ms. Wells who is from Gills Gap, Eagle Hall, St. Michael, worked as a seamstress in her earlier years.  She has one son and cared for many nieces and nephews during...