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Weekly Report - 28 October 2010 (WR-10-43)

BARBADOS: PM's death comes at challenging moment

The Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, died on 23 October after a seven-month battle with pancreatic cancer. His political life was defined by one big event: the global financial crisis and economic slowdown. It enabled his Democratic Labour Party (DLP) to end the bid by the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to win a fourth straight term in power in 2008, but it also seriously limited the DLP's room for manoeuvre once it came to power. Barbados remains the Latin American and Caribbean success story par excellence, consistently topping league tables for human development, but preserving this coveted status will be a big challenge for Thompson's successor, Freundel Stuart, amid an adverse economic scenario.

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