HONOUR ALL OUR HEROES

Hours before work begins on the area, Government is being urged to name what will become the City’s newest green space ‘The People’s Revolutionary Park’.

Speaking to the media yesterday at the “sacred site” of Golden Square, ahead of Monday’s planned start of the Bridgetown Transformation Project, the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration’s General Secretary, David Denny, said it was necessary to do so to honour all of those who had been involved in the fight for workers’ rights on this island.

“We want the Government of Barbados to recognise all of the heroes to our liberation struggle and who would have created the conditions for the turning point to move Barbados forward,” he stated, adding that Israel Lovell should also be declared as a national hero and a monument created to recognise not only the leaders, but the people who would have participated in developing the July 26, 1937 rebellion.

Standing in solidarity with the decision of Government to demolish the old National Insurance building and Probyn Street Fire Service headquarters to expand the Golden Square area into a national park, Denny insisted as well the area be used as an educational tool for students across the island.

“We also see this park as a centre for political education for the Barbadian masses, so this could be considered not only as a park for entertainment, culture and recreation, but one for popular political education,” he added.

“Our ancestors would be fully pleased to know that Government and the people of Barbados are fully recognising their contribution and developing a national park,” he said, later adding, “We feel that this kind of project will help to create the right conditions for our black working-class people in Barbados.”