Monday, June 8, 2026

Pan Africanists to mark forefathers’ achievements

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PAN AFRICANISTS will be heralding the contributions of their forefathers as they commemorate the liberation of African Peoples this Crop Over season.

There will be the Day of National Significance at Golden Square at 5 p.m. tomorrow, a lecture on the contribution of Israel Lovell in the 1937 uprising at the Barbados Community College by Dr Rodney Worrell political historian at the University of the West Indies at 7 p.m. on Monday and then the Emancipation Day ceremony on August 1 starting at 6 a.m. at the Emancipation Statue.

Speaking to the media yesterday, David Comissiong, president of the Clement Payne Movement, said tomorrow’s observance of the 1937 riots will run from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. (JS)

Please read the full story in today’s Saturday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.

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