This is a old shot of mine, taken late one evening in our capital city Bridgetown. It was taken from the Charles Duncan O'Neal Bridge, looking over the inner basin of the Careenage towards Independence Square.
Charles Duncan O'Neal is one of our national heroes, hailed for his preeminent role in bringing about deep social reform in the first half of the 20th century in Barbados. Barbados in the 1920s and 1930s was not at all kind to its improverished, black population and men like O'Neal campaigned relentlessly for better working and living conditions for this majority of the island's population.
I will probably do more on him around April, when we celebrate Heroes' Day.
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