Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre
The Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (formerly known as the Sherbourne Conference Centre) is a conference centre facility on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Owned by the Government of Barbados, and managed by the government agency "Barbados Conference Services Limited" ("BCSL"), the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre is just outside the capital city of Bridgetown, in St. Michael. Facility. First opened in 1994, the building contains a total of over of meeting space and is made up of space which may be subdivided for smaller events of between 50-1200 persons (theatre style). When first constructed the building  was considered too large by members of Opposition and construction on back portion of the facility halted just after a change in government. Many Calypsonians sung about the side of the facility (which contained a planned performing arts centre) as being "unfinished" or stating the facility had its "backside exposed". After a change in government in 2008, the semi-completed ~15-year-old auditorium was torn down to make way for office space and a carpark instead. This action was much to the condemnation of the former Prime Minister that spearheaded it, Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford. Naming. On 24 October  2008, the facility's original name of Sherbourne Conference Centre was changed to its present name in honour of Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, a former prime minister of Barbados.