Barbados, a tiny, sun-suffused coral island in the southern Caribbean, is keenly sought out for the abundant sunshine, azure waters, soft-sand beaches, world-class restaurants and rental villas ...

The owners, husband-and-wife Amy and Wesley Gittens, converted the so-called chattel house — small, wooden, movable houses that were built by the first freed, Black plantation laborers in the ...

George Washington slept here. Among the hundreds of markers that make that claim, the most curious is here on Barbados, the easternmost Caribbean island, off Venezuela, which Washington visited in ...

Barbados makes it easy. It’s just a four-and-a-half hour flight to the perfect three- or four-day weekend. Adults looking to get away — and fast — can head to the furthest east of… ...

Barbados lays claim to being the place where the first rum was produced. Mount Gay distillery — founded in 1703 — is thought to be the oldest continuously functioning rum distillery in the world.

George Washington once visited Barbados, the easternmost Caribbean island, but today most visitors come for the sun, surf and sand. ... Cricket fields abound, as do chattel houses, ...

Houses therefore had to be 'chattel', which means 'movable possession', and so were built of wood and constructed that they could be dismantled, moved to another spot and reassembled.

Spotting a "chattel house" on my drive back from the desolate east coast of Barbados was pure chance. In fact, I would not have learned what a chattel house was at all had I not asked my driver ...

ST. PHILIP, Barbados -- George Washington slept here. Among the hundreds of markers that make that claim, the most curious is here on Barbados, the easternmost Caribbean island, off the coast of ...

This article was published 12/03/2012 (4833 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. It was the sinister skull-and-crossbones carving that made the tombstone so conspicuous. Moss ...