Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson is dead

[Mosiah]

Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson is dead
CMC
Saturday, October 23, 2010


BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister David Thompson has died. He was 48.
Thompson died at 2:10 this morning after battling pancreatic cancer.
His wife Mara and three children were at his bedside when he passed away at his home in St Phillip.

[Islandman]

Sad news! Young man at that. Condolences to his family and nation.

Hopefully his successor will continue the tradition of good leadership that Barbados has cultivated.

[Reggaedoc]

Very sad indeed. A gentleman with great potential who could have been a great example to the clowns we have in Jamaica.

[MdmeX]

May he RIP.

[Peter R]

RIP Mr Thompson.

[Exile]

Sad. Heard of his case sm time ago. He was good friends of some of my good friends. Met him as a Law Student at Hugh Wooding....he had potential...put B'dos first but had a broader perspective...may he RIP. Young boy...born '61...
The announcement of his death comes less than a month after a September 30 radio broadcast in which he said that his “greatest wish” for Barbados at this time is for all citizens to use “adversity to refocus our energies on what’s best for Barbados and that we wrap our actions and our utterances in the national flag and the furtherance of this great nation we call home.
“That’s my challenge to you. Unite and love,” he said, noting “if we can unite first and foremost as sons and daughters of these fields and hills we call our very own, nothing will hold us back. We did it in the 60s and 70s, and we make no wanton boast of what we can achieve”.
He had re-shuffled his Cabinet because of the strain the cancer had taken on his personal health and in his last broadcast said he had purposely decided against appearing on television because the “nature of my medical treatment has occasioned obvious weight loss.
“I would rather that you get the portent of my message rather than the picture; and be concerned about the message, not the medium,” he added.