Bridgetown.
Today marks two years since six young women perished in the Campus Trendz fire.
Shanna Griffith, Nikkita Belgrave, Pearl Cornelius,Tiffany Harding, Kellishaw Ollivierre and Kelly Ann Welch lost their lives in the Tudor Street, Bridgetown boutique after it was firebombed during an attempted robbery.
Yesterday a special service was held at the St Michael's Cathedral to commemorate the anniversary.
The sermon preached by Dean of the Cathedral, Dr Frank Marshall moved friends and relatives of the six victims, along with members of the congregation to tears.
Marshall articulated a candid and harsh reality of the current state of the Barbadian society.
"It seems fair enough to want to hunt down and bring to justice those who have been at the forefront of violent assaults against the person. But let us sit up and be wise, my friends, for what we are getting is the fruit of our sowing and our breeding", Marshall said.
"This nation, once taking pride in its level of literacy, its courtesy, humanity, civility and dignity, has opted in some cases wittingly and in others unwittingly to forsake what to some was a too genteel form of living and being", he added.
Relatives of six women, a number of Government officials and members of the public will congregate in National Heroes Square, Bridgetown, for 
a national minute of silence at noon today to observe the tragedy.
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