Troops go through paces in preparation for Independence Day Parade

Armed and unarmed troops went through their paces at Kensington Oval today in preparation for the celebrations to mark Barbados’ 56th anniversary of Independence.

Fifty officers and and 952 other ranks made up the detachments in the Parade’s rehearsal.

Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force, Commodore Errington Ricardo Shurland says the rehearsal went well and called on Barbadians to line the streets on Independence Day.