Albert Haig Pierce Weatherheard was an avid swimmer, and held records for the national breaststroke for several years. He founded the Alpha Swim Club in 1966 which boasts of swimming stars such as Leah Martindale, Andrei Cross, Terrence Haynes and Alex Sobers....
Born at the Ivy, St Michael, Constance “Dan” Inniss was academically gifted. She entered Queen’s College in 1927, having won a Vestry Scholarship from Belmont School. On leaving school, Ms. Inniss entered the teaching service in 1935 and taught at St. Luke’s...
Sydney Burke was born in Harrises in the parish of St. Lucy. Ms. Burke worked in her earlier years as a labourer at Mount Gay Plantation and later move on to become an astute entrepreneur plying her delicacies to the children of the St. Lucy’s School for many years....
Matilda Jane Barrow, affectionately known as “Tilly or Baba,” was born to James and Martha Skeete, at Pickering, St. Lucy. Tilly lost her parents at an early age and as a result, she and her siblings became residents of the Almshouse. Tilly was eventually...
Ursula Sobers is the toast of her Black Sage Alley, St. Lucy district, and there is a street named after her to prove it. The affable semi-super centenarian proudly boasts that she is a celebrity in her own right. “I tell my daughter that me and Rihanna are...
