Former Barbados Prime Minister, Erskine Sandiford dies

The Barbados authorities has confirmed that former prime minister, Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, died on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital early on Monday.

It didn’t give particulars surrounding the dying of the 86-year-old politician, however mentioned {that a} interval of nationwide mourning might be noticed till June 28 “and on the day of the State Funeral after session with the household”.

As well as, all flags might be flown at half-mast till the interment of the island’s fourth prime minister from 1987 to 1994, who later served as Barbados’ first resident ambassador in Beijing, China from 2010 to 2013.

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The federal government assertion mentioned that Labor and Social Partnership Relations Minister, Colin Jordan, would be the coordinating minister for the funeral preparations because it prolonged “sincerest condolences to his spouse, Woman Sandiford, his son Garth, his daughter Inga and his prolonged household”.

In 1967, one 12 months after independence, he was appointed to the Senate. Sandiford left the Senate to run within the 1971 elections, wherein he gained a seat within the Parliament. The Democratic Labor Occasion (DLP) below Errol Barrow shaped the federal government and Sandiford served in lots of cupboard positions together with as Minister of Schooling.

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