Hailed as a dedicated regionalist, tributes have poured in for former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur who died just after midnight yesterday and who is being remembered here for standing up for a fair result from the March 2nd general elections.
Arthur, who was 70 years old died at 12:26 a.m. at the Queen Elizabeth Hos-pital, according to the Barbados Govern-ment Information Service.
According to the Barbados Nation, Arthur, Barbados’ fifth Prime Minister, was hospitalised in mid-July with heart complications and was in the Intensive Care Unit.
