Friday, April 24, 2026

Road to danger

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Call it a brand of Russian roulette or simply “suicidal travelling”.
Increasingly, it seems, Barbadians are flirting with death while riding on open back trucks and trailers.
This point is dramatised in this photo of people on moving vehicles snapped in St George by Marcelle Daniel.
 Daniel’s catches a coconut vendor relaxing with a load of nuts, oblivious of the danger posed.

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