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He was an excellent manager and popular with staff. He retired in 1967 on medical advice and relocated with his wife Kay to British Columbia. He died in 1986 at the age of 72.

Then there was Gerry Richards asking Sir Clyde Walcott at the dismissal of a batsman “Was that the googly?” To which the former great replied “No, that was the straight ball actually” or “Raffie Knowles” via 610 radio hook up describing the dismissal of a batsman thus “and he is on his way”!!Pronouns in Bajan Dialect do not diverge too far from Standard English, but there are differences. As with other similar creoles, Bajan does not differentiate subject and object pronouns, nor possessive pronouns, except in the case of the first person singular. Another difference is the word for the plural you, which is wunna, similar to the Jamaican word unnu / unna or Bahamian yinna or Gullah Geechee hunnuh. Here is a list of pronouns in Bajan Dialect: Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic

Almost every Barbadian broadcaster of note worked at Rediffusion whose newsroom was the training ground for those on the the island wanting a career in broadcast or journalism. I remember vividly the live commentary of the Cave Shepherd fire in 1969. The description was so articulate that living in St. Philip we could imagine the scene in town that night. I challenge any announcer to do that today! Much later on, I met Colonel Oliver who was in charge of the station from 1951 to 1967. Jan Weel (nee Pemberton) Rediffusion Staff Col. Roy Oliver – General Manger Barbados Rediffusion Services Ltd: 1951 – 1967 The one I like best was an occasion when the beautiful and brilliant Marvo Manning – beauty queen, actress, journalist and motivational speaker – was reading the news, to be followed by Vic Brewster, who would take over in the operator’s studio as a D.J. for the next hour. and re-broadcasting. This proved to be a scoop for the ABS stations in America – another example of the immediacy of radio broadcasting. Daily News 6 th July 1962This dish should be on your must-eat Barbadian food list as it’s one of the most traditional things to eat in Barbados. As in most English-based Caribbean creoles, the interdentals /θ/ and /ð/ (as in " thing", and " the" respectively) have merged with other consonants (in this case, /t/ and /d/, respectively, resulting in "ting" and "de"). [11] Unlike most other Caribbean creoles, Bajan is fully rhotic, and if anything more rhotic than North American Standard English. Bajan also has a strong tendency to realize syllable-final /t/ as a glottal stop [ʔ]. Thus the Bajan pronunciation of start, [stɑːɹʔ], contrasts sharply with the pronunciation of other Caribbean speakers, [staːt] or [stɑːt] or [staːɹt]. [12] Pronouns [ edit ] The company was sold to the Nation Corporation in 1979 and was granted a broadcast license which saw the birth of Voice of Barbados (V.O.B.), and A.M. radio stations. It was Vic Fernandes who later rebranded it as an F.M. station, created 104.1 (now known as The Beat), Hott 95.3 and 97.5 The Gospel station.

It has to be a Bajan thing that you start the day off with death announcements! The comment that if you did not hear your name you knew you were living so could get out of bed I have heard many times. Before everyone had telephones this was the only way that you would know who died etc. My parents used to call the music that they played before the death announcements as the “Duppy Calypso”. William Burton Kaspar Coward remembers: Theo Williams recalled one of their neighbours, who had installed Rediffusion, waking them up early in the morning to inform them that hurricane Janet was heading our way. And one of his dad’s first tasks a couple days after was to request rediffusion service.

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Vera Lynn the gifted singer and darling of the British Armed services. She was invariably the most requested singer on the Saturday afternoon programme Forces Favourites. Winford, Donald. 2000. "'Intermediate' Creoles and degrees of change in Creole formation: The case of Bajan". In I. Neumann-Holzschuh and E. W. Schneider, eds, Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins, 215–245. When Mum returned to school she was one of the only girls who had heard the latest tunes and she was able to bash them out playing by ear on the school piano to the admiration of her classmates, but perhaps not the teachers. I remember my grandfather Pop lying in his Berbice chair listening to “Doctor Paul” which was like a “Days of our Lives” soap for radio.

Another Rediffusion commentator was heard to say that the “bowler bowled an injudicious ball, the batsman played an injudicious shot, and he was out injudiciously. We lived in Maxwell Coast Road until 1965 when I was 9 and Rediffusion was available and on all day. D’you remember the Coronation ceremonies in 1953 with Bridgetown lit up and decorated magnificently? Then our first of many Royal visits with The Princess Royal, Mary, and soon after, a very young niece – the new Queen’s sister, Margaret? My father, Canon Frank Pemberton, was a regular early Monday morning broadcaster, on Rediffusion with his Anglican radio service. “We begin with the hymn etc..”

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Vic also tells me that the late Jeff Newton was reading the news one night on TV about the U.S. President Lyndon Johnson on a visit to Mexico. With the exception of the General Manager, Programme Manager and the Engineer-in-Charge all the staff were recruited locally and Rediffusion was proud of the fact that all technical, wiring and operating staff were Barbadian, practically all trained by the Company itself.