This is an encyclopaedic work, describing in detail the main geographical, historical, economic, educational and social features of each of the parishes making up the island of Barbados. Morris Greenidge has made every Barbadian at home and in the diaspora a part of the island’s story in their tenantries, alleys and gaps, through their sportsmen and sportswomen, musicians, teachers, preachers, policemen and firemen, and their achievers on the world’s stage either in their own right or by simply being a relative. No one is left out – from prime ministers, bishops and archbishops, doctors, school principals, millionaire business leaders; the Mottleys, Rihannas, Worrells, Walcotts, and Weekes, to village shopkeepers – they are all spotlighted and named in their hundreds. It will immediately find its place as an indispensable reference guide for researchers, journalists and students, in homes and offices wherever the island of Barbados is celebrated.