Lilian Straker can boast of being one of the island’s oldest cancer survivors. At 90, she gave her family quite a scare when she was diagnosed with colon cancer. This feisty lady had surgery in 2009, and doctors decided not to give her chemotherapy because...
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...
Winston Brewster was born in Gibbons, Christ Church. Educated at Providence Boys’ School, Winston worked alongside his grandmother pulling grass at Gibbons Plantation, in the same parish until age 10. Later, he worked weeding the roads and clearing gutters...
Beryl Mabel Whitney was the “lady of the hour” when relatives and friends gathered at the home of her daughter, Lola Bynoe, where Beryl currently resides, to celebrate the special milestone on October 9. Governor General Dame Sandra Mason, who joined via...
Clarence Linton Murrell was a strict disciplinarian and a stickler for good time management in the work place. These attributes aptly sum up the character of the man, as Governor General Dame Sandra Mason joined family, friends and members of the Barbados Legion, in...
