SUPERSTAR AT CONCERT

International superstar Rihanna will be in the lineup for next month’s Golden Anniversary Spectacular Mega Concert.

 

The Barbadian-born crooner is scheduled to perform the National Anthem, accompanied by a choir of school children, at the Garrison Savannah on the evening of November 30, Independence Day.

 

Making this announcement, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said that the concert will be a three-part climax of the island’s 50th anniversary. 

 

He was speaking during a press conference yesterday at his official residence, while outlining the host of activities slated for these final weeks leading up to the culmination on Independence Day. 

 

These include a musical theatre production dedicated in memory of the late Dame Nita Barrow entitled ‘Mirror Mirror, Show Me a Hero’; ‘The Road to Destiny’ Exhibition at the Barbados Museum; the Barbados Food and Rum Festival; ‘Nostalgia’ Evening of Elegance at Ilaro Court; Prime Minister’s Dinner and Ball; ‘One People One Barbados Human Chain Link’; and the reveal of the 50th Anniversary of Independence National Monument, amongst other events.

 

Stuart also disclosed that the University of the West Indies Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies has created the ‘Barbados at 50: The Barbados National Values Assessment 2016’, to answer the questions he has continually posed to the nation since the launch of the independence celebrations: What are the features of Barbadian life lost that we need to reclaim, what features that we have not lost that we need to retain, and what features have we not lost that we have to try and discard as quickly as possible.

 

“Some preliminary results will be made public during the month of November. That primary research study will inform us of the views of the population in relation to where we are as a people at this juncture of our 50th anniversary as an independent nation,” he said. (JMB)