COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS Barbados will be lit up for this year’s Independence celebrations.
The switch to light up The City and other select sites was flicked around 6:20 p.m. yesterday by 11 children, one drawn from each parish, and with it the official launch of month-long activities to mark the country’s 49th anniversary of Independence.
In what was a departure from what had existed for the last several years, Minister of Culture Stephen Lashley said yesterday that in addition to lights around the various roundabouts, at least one historic building in each parish would also be illuminated.
Lashley made the announcement yesterday evening at the Sagicor Life Lighting Ceremony in Independence Square, where he thanked the many sponsors who helped to make the expanded lighting across the country possible.
One parish which needed a bit of light at this time was St Philip, still reeling from a tragic accident which took the lives of four young women two Sundays ago, with a fifth hospitalised.
Lashley said the lesson in the tragedy was that there was a lot to be thankful for, and of the need to be our brother’s keeper. (YB)
