Thread: Barbados PM Thompson dies at 48

...succumbs to pancreatic cancer
Published: 24 Oct 2010

Barbados has been plunged into mourning as Prime Minister David John Howard Thompson died yesterday, succumbing to his struggle with pancreatic cancer, the government announced. He was 48 and is survived by his wife, Marie-Josephine Mara, their three daughters and his parents. Thompson, who became prime minister of the Caribbean nation of 270,000 people in January 2008, died before dawn at his private residence in Mapps, St Phillip, according to a government statement. Thompson had been ill since March and travelled to New York several times for treatment. He declined to discuss his condition until last month when his doctor announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy.


http://guardian.co.tt/news/general/2010/10/24/barbados-pm-thompson-dies-48