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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 ...
Sir Hugh Worrell Springer GCMG CBE [1] (22 June 1913 – 14 April 1994) [2] was the organiser and first general secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union, and Barbados' fourth governor-general. [3] He was a lawyer, politician and public servant. [4] By an act of Parliament in 1998, Springer was named as one of the eleven National Heroes of Barbados.
Angelita Sandiford. Residence. Ilaro Court (1987–1994) Profession. Economics Lecturer. Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, KA, PC (24 March 1937 – 26 June 2023) was a Barbadian politician. He served as the fourth prime minister of Barbados from 1987 to 1994, and later served as Barbados' first resident ambassador in Beijing, China, from 2010 to 2013.
George Lamming. George William Lamming OCC (8 June 1927 – 4 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. [1] He first won critical acclaim for In the Castle of My Skin, his 1953 debut novel. [2] He also held academic posts, including as a distinguished visiting professor at Duke University and a visiting professor in the Africana ...
Martin Austin Fido (18 October 1939 – 2 April 2019) was a university professor, true crime writer and broadcaster. His many books include The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper, The Official Encyclopedia of Scotland Yard, Serial Killers, and The Murder Guide to London. [1] He is also one of the authors of The complete Jack the ...
Larry Leon Palmer (July 13, 1949 – April 21, 2021) [1] [2] was an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2012 to 2015. [3] He was the United States Ambassador to Honduras from 2002 to 2005. He also served as the President of the Inter-American Foundation from 2005 to June ...
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.
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 for "squandering ...