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Owen Seymour Arthur - A Barbadian par excellence!

By Stanley Collymore    
     
Few politicians on their death,      
less so in the course of their      
lifetime, and especially so      
during their own term of      
office; and additionally        
outstandingly too, as      
a stupendously, so      
transformatively      
democratically      
elected Prime      
Minister, of      
a patently      
beloved      
country        
     
and thoroughly command      
the natural abundant      
and unassailable      
respect, deep      
adoration, consummate      
love, and the utmost      
confidence in what      
they were doing      
within and as      
well outside        
the visibly      
critically      
crucial        
areas        
     
that comprise the major        
constitutional areas      
of parliamentary      
democracy as      
you did and        
will justly        
be a part      
of your eternal      
legacy Owen      
Seymour      
Arthur!      
     
Barbados' longest serving      
Prime Minister; similarly      
too, its distinguished      
and a very capably        
administered in      
that political        
role, its official and a very      
impressive as well as      
an adeptly skilled      
Parliamentary      
Opposition        
Leader.        
     
But previous to all this, an      
outstanding Senator, elected      
member of parliament for      
the constituency of St.      
Peter, that until his      
voluntarily resignation as      
an MP, he continuously        
held, and assiduously        
served for well over        
33 years. Next, to      
fittingly excel in      
an appropriate      
appointment        
of a skilled      
Academic        
     
at the Cave Hill Campus in      
Barbados: a constituent      
part of the University      
of the West Indies while also      
serving as a distinguished,      
highly successful, a most      
commendable and, as      
well, an irrefutably        
too in the process        
an impressively        
commited and      
key, Caricom      
Statesman!      
     
(C) Stanley V. Collymore      
9 August 2020.      
     
     
Author's Remarks:      
Achievements galore to remember you endearingly for Sir, and I'm absolutely sure that every patriotic Bajan will do just that!        
     
So this is not goodbye my friend, and fellow Bajan, but rather an earnest au revoir to you until we meet up again with you in the After-life, our now departed but distinguished leader.      
     
Prime Minister, mentor, fellow Bajan patriot, dedicated CARICOM coordinator and statesman, and an eternal friend. The late Right Honourable Owen Seymour Arthur.  

And with your work on Earth now completed, rest in eternal  peace with the Angels, of whom you're now one of them, in what's now your similarly celestial heaven.      
     
The late former Prime Minister the Right Honourable Professor Owen Seymour Arthur is to receive a state funeral on Friday the 14 August 2020. The service will commence at 2 PM at St. Peter's Church with the burial at the Mount Pleasant Memorial Gardens.        
   
Previous to the aforementioned events the body of the deceased will lie in state at the 1639 established and continuously, thereafter, ongoing 381 year old Barbados Parliament located in the country's capital Bridgetown, on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 August 2020 between the hours of 10 AM and 4 PM.    
     
A virtual condolence book, in addition to several normal ones at strategic and official government locations across the island of Barbados, is also available at: owenarthurtributes.bb  - for friends and well wishers around the world.

Owen Seymour Arthur - 17 October 1949 - 27 July 2020.      
 
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