Bajan heroes save visitors

Nation News "WHEN VICTOR LEWIS looked the visitors in the eyes last Wednesday, he held their hands and said: 'Make sure you spend the rest of your lives together, because you could have just died together.'

Lewis, a regular sea-bather at Bathsheba, St Joseph, saw the two people out to sea in distress.

What Lewis didn't know at the time was that these two were newlyweds, and were only two days into their honeymoon.

'They were on the beach with another couple who genuinely could not attempt to save them and I saw this white lady running for help, while the man stayed in the shallow water encouraging them to hold on."

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Jamaica 'ties knot' with Bajans

Caribbean360.com : "Air Jamaica has tied 'the knot' with the Barbados Tourism Authority on a marketing deal for newly weds. Barbados, a veteran in traditional tropical tourism for over six decades, markets to certain niche markets as well.".........................................................Air Jamaica, the Barbados-designated flag carrier from New York - affectionately known as "The Lovebird" - has pledged its troth to Barbados' new weddings and honeymoons website.

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I hate to look at the Barbados tourists site that give the history of Barbados.The ones that talk of Columbus discovering these islands and the other foolish tales that the Bob Marley and Burning Spear called 'mis-education'.I agree with them as a matter of fact Burning Spear referred to Christopher Columbus as a 'damn blasted liar'.Thank god for Rastafari. One of the funniest stories is the one of the bearded fig tree and the name Los Barbados which was supposed to mean 'the bearded one'. In the words of Gary Cole from the book reflections; The Colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history.Four centuries ago,Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap,kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the island the Indians called Ichirouganaim.The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and sailors knew the island as the barbarous island,"Los B

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