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Article: Barbados Prime Minister Barrow Dies
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 3, 1987
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Prime Minister Errol Barrow, 67, a veteran politician who guided
Barbados to independence from Great Britain in 1966 and who sought to
increase Caribbean unity, died June 1 at his home in Bridgetown. The
cause of death was not reported.
After Mr. Barrow's death, Governor General Sir Hugh Springer
immediately swore in Erskine Sandiford, who is the deputy prime
minister, minister of education and labor and leader of the House of
Assembly, as the nation's new prime minister. Sir Hugh also said all
other cabinet members would be reappointed.
It was the second time in two years that Barbados' prime minister
has died in office. On March 14, 1985, 53-year-old Tom Adams
suffered a fatal heart ...