Queen's College Association - Barbados

18/10/2026

18/10/2026

📢 NEED HELP WITH YOUR BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP FILING?

The SBA, in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy & Business is hosting a Beneficial Ownership Filing Clinic! 🤝

📅 Wednesday, October 21, 2026 ⏰ 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

📍 SBA Secretariat, Suite 101, Building 4, Harbour Industrial Estate, Bridgetown

📄 What to bring:
✅ Valid Barbados ID
✅ Proof of address (no older than 3 months)
✅ TAMIS numbers for beneficial owner(s) and business
✅ Relevant corporate documents

💳 Filing Fee: BDS $150 (card or cheque only — no cash).

🔗 Register here: http://tiny.cc/BeneficialOwnership

We encourage eligible members to take advantage of this opportunity! 💼

18/10/2026

Alumna, Gale Weithers

*Sixty years of speaking for ourselves. Five years as a republic.*

As Barbados prepares to celebrate these milestones, what better time for your team to carry that same confidence into every meeting and presentation, so their message lands the first time?

Excited to introduce our brand-new signature workshop: Beyond the Slide: How to Stop Losing Your Audience by the Second Slide.

Register here: https://forms.gle/JFwh2dTwWykn32nQ9

18/10/2026

: The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) is reforming School-Based Assessment (SBA) requirements
What do these changes mean for you?
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CXC® has published vital documentation to help everyone navigate the transition smoothly:
Guide to CXC’s SBA Reform
Understanding the Reformed SBA Framework (FAQs)
Visit: qrfy.io/r/sba-info for more details.

18/10/2026

Fertur Lux George A. Pilgrim 👏🏆📜

Governance and public policy consultant
George Pilgrim has been called to the Bar, adding a new qualification to his professional career.
Pilgrim, who also works as a part-time university lecturer, is now encouraging people of all ages to pursue law and urges legal education in schools to build social

18/10/2026

‘QC panel calls for early testing, greater accountability

A panel has called for mandatory psychological testing from pre-primary or primary school, greater accountability, and a reallocation of scarce resources to address shortcomings in the education system.

Addressing the topic Education Evolution: Building an Inclusive and Equitable System for Every Barbadian Child, the three-member panel of Queen’s College alumni agreed that reform must focus on solutions, recognising that these involve different timelines and practical considerations.

The event, held at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, was part of the recent Elsie Payne Memorial Evening organised by the Queen’s College Association during its week of activities.

Paula-Anne Moore, founder and spokesperson of the Caribbean Coalition for Exam Redress and the Group of Concerned Parents, led the discussion.

She said: “What has come through very clearly… Testing is critical at, if not pre-primary level, which is age two, three…actually, that’s the time we should be looking at this. We are launching Universal pre-K; testing should be part of that framework.”
Universal pre-K, also known as “preschool access for all,” provides preschool-aged children access to publicly funded pre-kindergarten care and education.
Moore also argued that while some conscientious teachers may detect certain behaviours in children, others require a specialist.

“We have a paucity of resources for that type of testing; and then also guidance counsellors, they are shared in the primary schools; and 1 100 students in a secondary school and there is one guidance counsellor, and that guidance counsellor is wearing different hats.

“And I am saying, in terms of looking atsolutions, that we certainly need to have a reallocation of resources, if not additional resources, to have that testing framework embedded in our system.”

Turning to what she described as the private lessons industry, Moore complained that afterschool paid tutoring puts the less fortunate in society at a disadvantage.

18/10/2026

A shoe merchant’s daughter took a prize only boys had won for sixty-six years. Elsie Pilgrim was a pupil at Queen’s College, a girls’ school in Bridgetown, Barbados, when she won the Barbados Scholarship in 1946. She was nineteen, and no award on the island ranked higher.
What she did with it is why her name is on a building in Bridgetown today.
That building stands on Constitution Road, and it began as her school. Back on January 29, 1883, Queen’s College opened there, while Barbados was still a British colony. It had an Englishwoman as headmistress and thirty-three pupils, the youngest three years old.
Elsie started there in 1936, at nine years old. She stayed ten years, which is most of a childhood spent at one school.
In Elsie’s years, the top class at Queen’s College taught Latin, English literature, history and the classics, the old Greek and Roman writing. That list comes from a 2015 column in the Barbados Advocate newspaper. At the island’s leading boys’ schools, the column says, boys could also take the sciences.
So Elsie won the scholarship on the subjects her school offered, with no sciences. It was awarded to her in a field called Modern Studies, the first time it had gone to anyone in that field. The scholarship paid for university study, and that year it was the only one given on the whole island.
The same column says the prize still left whole careers closed to her. Medicine, engineering, land surveying and accountancy were shut, and what was left was teaching or nursing.
After ten years at Queen’s College, those were her two choices.
Elsie went to a college in Exeter, England, that was then part of the University of London. She earned a history degree there in 1949, then a doctorate in history at Cambridge.
In 1952 she came back to Queen’s College, this time as a teacher. A year later she married David Payne and took his name. She loved Shakespeare, and she loved calypso, the Caribbean song style.
In her classroom she taught the history of slavery in the Caribbean, which was not then a usual part of what Barbadian schools taught.

18/10/2026

Congratulations…👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The light is being carried FL👌 Khaleel Kothdiwala Valedictorian 🏆📜

18/10/2026

Sing with us! 🎤

18/10/2026

Edwin🩵 5 years ago I proudly graduated from QC although it was during Covid, here I am now graduating UWI but I could never forget the school that laid the groundwork for my success today