Barbados Cadet Corps Summer Success
BDF Media Release | 20 AUG 18
Photography credit: AB Bryan T, OS Matthews – Ifill J, Pte Brathwaite RR
The Barbados Cadet Corps successfully hosted the Caribbean Cadet Camp and Caribbean Cadet Commandants’ Conference this summer.
The Caribbean Cadet Camp aimed at providing an opportunity for regional and international officers and cadets attending the camp to practically apply their skills, while creating an environment for the building of camaraderie through challenging but enjoyable evolutions of training.
The Cadets engaged and trained in areas of safety of life at sea, rappelling, hiking, living in the field, orienteering, obstacle crossing, waterborne and adventurous training, range exercises and drill. the CCC 18 participants were also treated to a visit by Governor General of Barbados, Her Excellency, Dame Sandra Mason, GCMG, DA, QC, Crop Over festivities, tours and socials.
The CCC 18 contingents were; Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados Cadet Corps, Bermuda British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands Cadet Corps, Dominica Cadet Corps, Grenada Cadet Corps, Jamaica Combined Cadet Force, Montserrat Cadet Corps, St. Kitts & Nevis Cadet Corps, St. Lucia Cadet Corps, St. Vincent & The Grenadines Cadet Force, Trinidad & Tobago Cadet Force, Turks & Caicos Islands Cadet Corps, United Kingdom Hove & Adur Sea Cadets Corps, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Army Cadet Force, United Kingdom Suffolk Army Cadet Force and the United States of America.
Governor General of Barbados, Her Excellency, Dame Sandra Mason, GCMG, DA, QC, greeting COS Col Glyne Grannnum and BCC Cmdt Lt Col Errol Brathwaite before joining the cadets on the range.
The 31st Caribbean Cadet Association Commandants Conference, chaired by the BCC’s Commandant Lieutenant Colonel Errol Brathwaite, discussed matters primarily pertaining to the impact on youth leadership in the Caribbean Region.
The contingents were Anguilla Cadet Corps, Antigua and Barbuda Cadet Corps, Bermuda Cadet Corps, British Virgin Islands Cadet Corps, Cayman Islands Cadet Corps, Commonwealth of Dominica Cadet Corps, Grenada Cadet Corps, Guyana Cadet Corps, Jamaica Combined Cadet Force, Montserrat Cadet Corps, St Kitts and Nevis Cadet Corps, St Lucia Cadet Corps, St Vincent and The Grenadines Cadet Force, Trinidad and Tobago Cadet Force and the Turks and Caicos Islands Cadet Corps.
Commodore (Cdre) Errington Ricardo Shurland was appointed Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) on 1 September 2021. He enlisted in the BDF in February 1984 and in a military career spanning over 34 years, has served in various operational and administrative appointments.
Colonel Glyne Grannum joined the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) on 18 October 1985 and underwent career development training at the Canadian Forces Officer Candidate School, Chilliwack and the Combat Training Centre, Gagetown New Brunswick, Canada. He subsequently attended the Infantry Training Centre and the Signal Wing in Warminster, UK (PCBC and RSO Courses respectively), the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy; the Lester Pearson Canadian Peacekeeping Centre, the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, Kingston, the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College, Toronto, the National Defence University of the People’s Liberation Army People’s Republic of China and the Centre for Hemispheric Defence Studies, National Defence University, Washington. He also attended a Defence Resources Management programme at National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Canada. In addition to being a qualified infantry officer, Col Grannum is a qualified Regimental Signals Officer and a former Operations Officer and Finance Officer of the BDF.
Colonel Banfield joined the Barbados Battalion of the South Caribbean Force in 1941 having just left the Cadet Corps at Combermere School, and was granted a commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1942. He was a Platoon Commander and a Company Commander during the war and served in Barbados, Dominica (as part of the Gale Force), St Lucia and St Vincent.
Warrant Officer Class 1 Colin Marshall is a graduate of the St Michael, and was born on the 5 November 1969 and enlisted in the Barbados Defence Force on 16 August 1994. He was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal in August 1997, Corporal in 1999, Sergeant in 2007, Color Sergeant in 2014, Warrant Officer Class Two in 2017 and Warrant Officer Class One in 2020. He was Most Outstanding Student on Junior Leadership Course in 1998, the Most Outstanding Student on Junior Non Commissioned Officer Cadre in Jamaica in 2000, best at Leadership on the Search Adviser Course in Jamaica in 2007 and the Most Outstanding Student on the Warrant Officer Course in Jamaica in 2015.
