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Health issues and death. Wikinews has related news: Prime Minister of Barbados David Thompson dies at age 48. At a media briefing at his official Ilaro Court residence on 14 May 2010, Thompson, accompanied by his personal physician, Richard Ishmael, said that he had been suffering with stomach pains since early March.
Member of MCC. Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier (10 July 1940 – 11 May 2016) was a Barbadian cricket journalist, writer, and radio commentator on West Indian cricket for over fifty years. [1] Scyld Berry wrote that he was both the voice and the conscience of West Indian cricket, the latter because of his harsh criticism of the West Indian board ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Barbados Labour Party. Spouse. Genevieve Adams. Residence. Ilaro Court 1984–1985. Occupation. Lawyer. Jon Michael Geoffrey Manningham Adams (September 24, 1931 – March 11, 1985), known as Tom Adams, was a Barbadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Barbados from 1976 until 1985. [ 1]
Kamau Brathwaite. Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (/ kəˈmaʊ ˈbræθweɪt /; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), [1] was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. [2] Formerly a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, [2] Brathwaite was the 2006 International ...
The Nation Publishing Co. Limited is the publisher of the Nation Newspaper, which is the dominant daily newspaper in the country of Barbados. Co-founded by Harold Hoyte and Fred Gollop, it was first established in 1973. [1] the Daily Nation is printed daily in colour and distributed at many points around the country.
Died. 9 June 1995. (1995-06-09) (aged 75) Bridgetown, Barbados. Occupation. Politician. Sir James Cameron Tudor, KCMG (18 October 1919 – 9 July 1995 [1]) was a Barbadian politician and diplomat, who was a founding member of the country's Democratic Labour Party in 1955. He served on the first Provisional General Council and as the first ...
An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2] According to Nigel Farndale, the Obituaries Editor of The Times, obituaries ought to be "balanced ...