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By Shamar Blunt Don’t go looking for “perfect” people to determine who should be added to the pantheon of National Heroes, a University of the West Indies historian has declared. Professor Alan Cobley, an expert in South African and comparative history at UWI Cave Hill, advised choosing historical figures who, despite all odds, pursued the noble and just cause of uplifting Barbadian lives. His call came at the launch of Ann Gill – The Making of A Barbadian Hero, a new biography of the only female on the national heroes list, Tuesday at the Barbados Museum. Professor Cobley said that stalwarts in the country’s past must be judged on what they did to improve the livelihoods of Barbadians despite challenges and sometimes violent pushback, instead of lesser-known parts of their lives which may not be acceptable today. ....
Educator Daryll Jordan passed away on Saturday morning. He was in his mid-80s. Jordan served as the first principal of the St Lucy Secondary School from the time it was officially opened by then Minister of Education Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, now Sir Lloyd, on October 28 1971, until he retired in 1995. On November 9, 2012, the school was officially renamed Daryll Jordan Secondary School in his honour. Jordan received his early education at All Saints Boys’ and Coleridge and Parry School. During his tenure at St Lucy Secondary, according to historian Dr Henderson Carter, he established community service projects, incentive schemes to acknowledge good behavior and set up the home/school programme which fostered better relationships between parents and teachers. Home visits by teachers were a part of that experience. ....