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16 unusual facts about Saint Michael, Barbados


Barbados Light and Power Company

It started operations in 1911 and has three power generation stations: one located along the Spring Garden Highway, a second at The Garrison and a third located at the Sir Grantley Adams International Airport in Seawell.

Cammie Smith

Cameron Wilberforce Smith (born July 29, 1933, Upper Dayrells Road, Saint Michael, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1960 to 1962.

Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation

CBC's studios and offices are located North of Wildey at The Pine, Saint Michael.

Cavite Choral

The Cavite Chorale is one of the premier choral groups of the Caribbean, sponsored by the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill.

CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank

location = Warrens, Saint Michael

Constitution River

The western end of the river runs through the centre of Bridgetown in Saint Michael.

David Holford

David Anthony Jerome Holford (born April 16, 1940, Upper Collymore Rock, Saint Michael, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in 24 Tests from 1966 to 1977.

Frank Collymore

Collymore was born at Woodville Cottage, Chelsea Road, Saint Michael, Barbados (where he lived all his life).

HM Prison

The title of HM Prison is given to Dodds Prison in St. Philip, and the former Glendairy Prison in Station Hill, St. Michael.

Patricia Symmonds

She was a part-time lecturer and tutor at Cave Hill Campus from 1963-65.

Payless ShoeSource

In 2012 Payless expanded into the Barbados market by opening the first ten-employee store at Haggatt Hall, St. Michael.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Q.E.H.) is located in Barbados' capital city Bridgetown, which is located in the parish of Saint Michael.

Romelle Burgess

Born in Saint Michael, Burgess moved to the United States in 2002 to attend Southern New Hampshire University, becoming just one of four college soccer players there to earn All-Conference honors four times.

Shani Mootoo

In 2008, the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, hosted a "Symposium on the Fictions of Shani Mootoo in the Context of Caribbean Women’s Writings".

Starcom Network

Starcom Network began its life as Radio Distribution (Barbados) Limited, with the introduction of the first broadcast station then located at Wildey, St. Michael in 1935.

The Girl Guide Association of Barbados

The first Guide meeting in Barbados was held on 30 November 1918 at Government House, Saint Michael.


1853 Atlantic hurricane season

A publication by meteorologist Ivan R. Tannehill indicates that Tropical Storm Two was centered near Barbados on August 10.

1980 CARIFTA Games

The Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the games was awardeded to Richard Louis from Barbados.

Arleigh

Arleigh Winston Scott GCMG, GCVO 1900–1976 Governor-General of Barbados, (1967–1976)

Barbados Cricket Association

From its earliest days Barbados has been renowned for the quality and calibre of its cricketers producing cricketers such as Challenor, Martindale, Weekes, Sobers, Hall.

Barbados Cricket Buckle

In the first chapter of his book "Muscular Learning", Professor Clem Seecharan reflects at some length on the importance of the Barbados Cricket Buckle recognising that its depiction on a Barbados postage stamp on the 60th anniversary of West Indies cricket was appropriate given cricket’s role as a “political instrument” from slavery through emancipation to independence.

Barbados National Stadium

But Barbados' past World Championships in Athletics gold-medalist Ryan Brathwaite has publicly condemned the current state of the National Stadiums' track infrastructure.

Barbados Sky

Barbados Sky is the first and only LP released by Typically Tropical, released in 1975.

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope

Henry Grenville (governor of Barbados in 1746 and ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in 1762), a younger brother of the 1st Earl Temple and of George Grenville.

Combined Islands cricket team

All-rounder Norbert Philip took more than 20 wickets for the second year running, and also hit 240 runs, while off spinner Derick Parry took a team record seven for 100 in the first innings of a drawn game against champions Barbados.

Cou-cou

Cou-cou derives from the island's African ancestry and was a regular meal for those slaves who were brought over from Africa to Barbados.

Courtney Browne

Courtney Oswald Browne (born 7 December 1970 in Lambeth, England) is a Barbadian cricketer.

Diamonds International

Diamonds International was founded in 1986 on the island of St Thomas and currently operates 129 stores in Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, Costa Maya, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Juneau, Ketchikan, Key West, Mazatlán, Playa Del Carmen, Puerto Vallarta, San Jose Del Cabo, Skagway, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, St. Thomas and Turks & Caicos.

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Dre Knight

Dre and Sizzla became good friends and travel to various countries to promote the album, these including Canada and Barbados.

Edward Greaves

Edward Evelyn Greaves (born 1940), High Commissioner of Barbados to Canada

Fitz Hinds

Delmont Cameron St Clair Hinds (born 1 June 1880 at Westbury Road, St Michael, Barbados, death details unknown) was a coloured West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.

Float Woods

Joseph 'Float' Woods (born about 1872 in Barbados, death details unknown) was a coloured West Indian cricketer best known as a member of the 1900 West Indian tourists to England.

George Codrington

After captaining Barbados in an inter-island under 21 competition in the West Indies, George Codrington first came to England in 1986 as part of a Viv Richards scholarship with Curtly Ambrose and Samuel Skeete.

George Lamming

George William Lamming was born on 8 June 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados, of mixed African and English parentage.

Guppy

Guppies were first described in Venezuela as Poecilia reticulata by Wilhelm Peters in 1859 and as Lebistes poecilioides in Barbados by De Filippi in 1861.

Hartley Alleyne

Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90.

History of Pensacola, Florida

The Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Stephen Mallory, was a Pensacolian and is buried in the city's historic Saint Michael's Cemetery.

Jesus Army Productions

Jesus Army Productions came out of the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

John Alleyne

Sir John Alleyne, 1st Baronet (1724–1801), Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados

Jon Nurse

Nurse was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and moved to England in 1984, taking up residence in Fulham living with his grandparents and mum.

Kamahl Santamaria

He was on his way to Barbados - where the event was due to finish - when he was grounded at New York's JKF Airport, following the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in Queens.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

On May 27, 2006, Guilfoyle married furniture heir Eric Villency on the island of Barbados.

Matt Joseph

He was also capped twice for Barbados in 2000, both caps at home against Guatamal and the United States.

Obadele Thompson

After the 2000 Olympics, Thompson was made "Ambassador and Special Envoy to the Youth" by former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur.

Paul A. Russo

He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan.

Pearlette Louisy

In 1966, a year after the completion of her secondary education she was awarded the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) scholarship to pursue a Bachelors’ Degree in English and French at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados.

Porto Velho

After the railroad was completed, the local population was about one thousand inhabitants; its buildings were chiefly the railway's installations and the wooden houses of the Caribbean (mainly Barbadian) workers - hence the name of the town's largest district by then, "Bajan Hill" or "Barbados Town", nowadays called the "Alto do Bode".

Quakers in the Abolition Movement

Quaker colonists began questioning slavery in Barbados in the 1670s, but first openly denounced slavery in 1688, when four German Quakers, including Francis Daniel Pastorius, issued a protest from their recently established colony of Germantown, close to Philadelphia in the newly founded American colony of Pennsylvania.

Richard Staple

He played twice in the Red Stripe Cup against the Leeward Islands and Barbados in February 1991, and went on the West Indies tour of England that year, playing against a World XI at the North Marine Road ground in Scarborough.

Ryan Hurley

Ryan "The Man" Hurley (born 13 September 1975 in Springhead, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played nine ODIs in 2003–04.

Saint Michael, North Dakota

Constantine Scollen the famous missionary priest was resident at St John from early 1887 until 1890

SIC K

Music videos are normally broadcast on SIC K, for example, "Love the Way You Lie" which is performed by American rapper Eminem featuring Barbadian singer Rihanna.

Sport in Barbados

Barbados has a number of famous cricketers including: Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Everton Weekes, Sir Clyde Walcott, and Sir Frank Worrell.

T. T. Lewis

Born Atholl Edwin Seymour Lewis, T. T. Lewis was one of a set of twins born in Drax Hall, Barbados.

Telecommunications in Barbados

By 1935 a hard wired cable-based radio network was later deployed throughout the country to broadcast the Rediffusion service directly from London to homes and business across Barbados.

Electricity coverage throughout Barbados is good and reliable.

Terence Lucy Greenidge

He was a first generation Barbadian born in England and second son of Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (who came up to study and remained at Oxford as an academic) and his wife Edith Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of William Lucy, at that time the sole owner of Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle Ironworks, in Walton Well Road, Jericho, Oxford.

Vensecar Internacional

Vensecar Internacional operates freight services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Aruba, Barbados, Bogotá, Curaçao, Miami, Panama City, Port of Spain, and Santo Domingo.

Winslow Sargeant

Sargeant's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and he grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, "one of Boston's mostly minority neighborhoods".