Sisters (left to right) Jessie not home since 1978, Wavanie who returns regularly, and Shirley Edwards not home since 1995, are eager to see the changes in Barbados' landscape. (picture by Cherie Pitt)
There is no place like home for the holidays!
The words of one of the world’s most popular Christmas songs became reality on Saturday, as scores of Barbadians roped through the Grantley Adams International Airport to spend their holidays in Bimshire.
Everyone seemed eager: The student who returned after a hard semester; the old lady who left many years ago; and the couple who spend every Christmas on the island.
“The last time I was here was in 1978 and all I keep hearing is how much things have changed so I am eager to just get going and see what I have missed for all these years,” Jessie Edwards-Thompson, a former Speightstown resident, now living in Kansas, said. Read the rest of this entry »
The Nation's Bajan Christmas 