Members of the Bourne, Alleyne, Grant and Thompson families during a reunion service yesterday at the Shalem Evangelical Church, Bush Hall, Yard Gap.
ALMOST one hundred members of a local family will be reuniting and getting to know each other better this week.
The Bourne, Alleyne, Grant and Thompson family reunion kicked off with a church service at the Shalem Evangelical Church, Bush Hall, Yard Gap, yesterday.
Relatives came in from across the United States of America, Scotland, and other parts of the world, to take part in the memorable reunion.
The family started in The City, when a father and his three sons came from Guyana, many years ago.
“We are having the reunion so that the family members get to know each other better. You know, you expand and people have children and tend to drift apart. The reunion is important so that people know their family and keep in touch every once in a while.
“The last time we had a reunion was in 2009 I think, but we have had a lot of additions to the family since then, so we decided to do it again so everybody knows who is who,” relative Tonie Greaves told The Barbados Advocate following yesterday’s service.
Today the family members will be on the road watching the Grand Kadooment spectacle. Tomorrow they will rest. A bus crawl is planned for Wednesday. On Thursday, they will be going to the St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bay Street, for a Requiem Mass, which will be followed by a barbeque at Browne’s Beach. On Friday night they will be heading to the St Philip Light house bar for a lime. The reunion will climax on Saturday, with a grand picnic and mini show at the St George, Gun Hill Signal Station. (AH)