Just weeks after celebrating her 108th birthday, renowned educator Dame Avisene Carrington has died, prompting an outpouring of tributes led by Prime Minister Mia Mottley. In a statement issued on Saturday, Mottley said Barbados was mourning “one of the brightest lights this country has ever known” as the country prepared for the Independence Lighting Ceremony marking the start of the November celebrations. “Barbados has lost a giant and I have lost a lifelong anchor,” the Prime Minister said.
