BDF Partners with the
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados Inc
Colonel Glyne Grannum, Chief of Staff Barbados Defence Force | 17 MAY 18
Photography credit: BHSF, Lance Corporal Boyce K
Headquarters Barbados Defence Force (BDF) is pleased to announce its partnership with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados Inc. in observing May Measurement Month (MMM).
MMM is an annual global awareness campaign that puts the spotlight on increasing access to blood pressure screening as the most effective ways of reducing hypertension’s adverse toll on health. This movement is led by the International Society of Hypertension and endorsed by the World Hypertension League, and it is rapidly becoming the world’s largest public blood pressure screening project.
Hypertension currently causes approximately 9.4 million deaths worldwide each year and this figure is expected to rise, given an expanding and aging global population. Because hypertension often fails to show any noticeable symptoms, persons often ignore monitoring this important and readily obtainable measurement.
During the month of May members of the BDF will be educated about the risks associated with hypertension and actively encouraged to get their blood pressure measured.
BDF soldier having blood pressure checked.
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.
