It was only after we asked, “WTF have you done with our parents?” did CSV stash them in the wrong caskets, hold a quickie funeral and inter them in the wrong graves, then not tell us when it would/did happen until after we got fed up with their runaround and asked for the bodies...
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inBarbadosin 1834. When I first saw it from the window of a taxi in 2016, I was taken aback by its unflinching depiction of the brutal enslavement of a people. But it wasn’t melancholy—it was prideful. I wondered if Bajans, as Barbadians are also known, thought about that history ...