Barbados Prime Minister dies

Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson according to report reaching our website died, at around 2;00 am this morning at his private residence in the South-Eastern parish of St. Phillips.          
              The forty-eight year old leader was said to have been suffering from a stomach pain since early March, died from pancreatic cancer.

                                                  
    Attorney General and Deputy Prime Minister Freundel Stuart was tasked with taking up the post of Prime Minister, of which he will remain until a further decision is taken.   
              Thompson leaves to mourn his wife, Mara, and daughters Mischa, Oya, and Osa- Marie. The family members and Senator David Durant, an evangelical minister, were by Thompson’s side when he died, according to reports.
             In addition, tributes continued to flow in from around the Caribbean including one from Guyana’s President Bharrat Jadgeo.