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Q 100.7 FM is a radio station in Barbados. It was launched on Monday 3rd May 2004 as Quality FM. The station airs mainly talk shows as well as a number of features (such as obituary announcements) previously broadcast by its sister station CBC 94.7 CBC 900 AM. Q 100.7 FM is marketed as the "Quality Talk, Quality Music" station.
American obituary for WWI death Traditional street obituary notes in Bulgaria. An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2]
Hugh Anthony Victor Arthur, [1] OBE (born Bridgetown, Barbados 1945) was High Commissioner of Barbados in London [2] from 2008 [3] until 2013. [4] Arthur was educated at Trent University [5] and the University of Surrey. Arthur spent many years with the Barbados Tourist Board. He was also a lecturer in Tourism at the University of the West Indies.
The Barbados Advocate was founded in 1895 [2] by Valence Gale, who had gotten his start at the Barbados Agricultural Reporter. [2] Gale died in 1908, [2] leaving controling interest in the paper to his wife, Clara Gale (née Chenery). [3]
† Smith Lawrence Austin Hayne - Mr. Smith became the first resident Canadian High Commissioner to Barbados, when a High Commission was established in Barbados on 27 September 1973. ‡ Power Noble Edward Charles - Since 1983, the High Commissioner to Barbados has also held the position of Commissioner to the British Virgin Islands .
Blackman served as Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados from June 1972 to March 1987, the longest-serving governor as of 2021. He was offered the position in a 5AM phone call from then-Prime Minister Errol Barrow; Blackman immediately accepted, but later joked that he "would never again accept a job offer while half asleep". [5]
Initially RCMP lawyers claimed his death was a suicide, but a coroners report ruled it a homicide. A review by the Ottawa Police Service found the officers actions to be justified. In 2019 his family filed a lawsuit against the RCMP claiming that his death was due in part to a lack of de-escalation training and Inuktitut-speaking officers. [282]