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Edgar dreams of having a bicycle like those of the well-known Bridgetown cyclists…. More >>

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This tale is one of a series which reflects the experiences of young children around the world. Okolo is nervous about his Aunt Vera’s Christmas present. With only a few days to go he does not have much money left, but he is still sure that he can find the perfect present…. More >>

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This tale is one of a series which reflects the experiences of young children around the world. Okolo is nervous about his Aunt Vera’s Christmas present. With only a few days to go he does not have much money left, but he is still sure that he can find the perfect present…. More >>

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UWI Cave Hill: 40 Years – A Celebration is the exciting success tale of the youngest campus of the University of the West Indies. From the humblest of beginnings in the abandoned hall of a Caribbean trade honest, on a patch of virgin, reclaimed land at the then new Deep Water Harbour site at Bridgetown, Barbados, it went to a dramatic escarpment at The Mount, just two miles north of the city – a site chosen from the air by the prime minister the late Errol Barrow hi… More >>

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This tale is one of a series which reflects the experiences of young children around the world. Okolo is nervous about his Aunt Vera’s Christmas present. With only a few days to go he does not have much money left, but he is still sure that he can find the perfect present…. More >>

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Hotten’s Original Lists of Persons of Quality is the classic work on 17th-century British immigration to the colonies. Not generally known, but, is that Hotten included only a part of the lists available to him. Nearly two-thirds of the vital Barbados Census of 1679/80 was not used and this left out more than half of the island’s parish registers, all of the militia rolls, and various lists of landholders. Thousands of immigrants settle… More >>

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“The English soon realized that if you held Barbados you strategically held the key to the rest of the Caribbean.”For an island its size, Barbados truly has an unparalleled military history. In this superbly detailed and accurate account of the history of the military in Barbados, author Major Michael Hartland takes us through time from the arrival of the first settlers in 1627 to the present day.The wonderful prints, photographs and maps within make this already ex… More >>

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A collection of Caribbean writer John Wickham’s tales, representing the range and accomplishment of his writing career, including the prize winning tale “Meeting in Milk Market”. He is adept at describing how small everyday events can be vital in shaping a person’s character and outlook on life…. More >>

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In this novel of immigration and homecoming, Alphonso Hutson is torn between his former home in Barbados, with lingering memories of his parents and brother, and his new life in America with his wife and daughters. When Alphonso returns to the gorgeous but politically turbulent Barbados after nearly 16 years, he must come to terms with his heritage and the ghosts of the past before he can return to the United States and truly call it home. Racial, political, and ec… More >>

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This brief pictorial chronicles segments of the life and times of the Caribbean’s Greatest Amabassador–Sir Frank Worrell. Through the Sir Frank Worrell pictorial, the author introduces readers to the world citizen who, in his brief lifetime of 42 years, symbolically extended the boundaries of a tiny Caribbean island to embrace Britain, Austraila, India and other Commonwealth countries…. More >>

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