Carlton Brathwaite the man whose name became associated with the controversial High Altitude Research Project At Paragon (HARP) Christ Church in the 60s is dead.
Brathwaite was hospitalised on Tuesday afternoon after ailing for some time and passed away early yesterday morning at the age of 80.
His first son Ian who was at his bedside, said his father died “very peacefully”.
While studying engineering at Canada’s Mc Gill University, Brathwaite was encouraged by two professors there to return to Barbados to work on a project in which Mc Gill was engaged. He ended up spending 20 years with the HARP project in which a 119-foot gun was built at Paragon in Christ Church for research by Mc Gill, and for which he became the target of criticism from different quarters in Barbados. (GC)
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