Prominent mental health advocate Tessa Chaderton-Shaw has passed away.
Shaw, who has held several high-level leadership roles related to public welfare and drug prevention in Barbados, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday after a brief illness.
She once served as Manager of the National Council on Substance Abuse (NCSA) and was also Regional Administrator for the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organisation (RADO). In 2022 she was appointed as a member of the three person panel which conducted a departmental inquiry into the allegations of the Government Industrial School following allegations of abuse.
She leaves to mourn her husband, Anthony Shaw, former Chief Executive Officer of the Nation Publishing Company and children Miah and Haylee.
