The family of the late Prime Minister David Thompson got a chance to view his body early today at Parliament where he was lying in state.
The family, including his wife Mara, children Misha, Oya and Osa-Marie, along with his parents Margaret Knight and Charles Thompson, and siblings, filed into Parliament early where their loved one was lying in state.
Governor-General Sir Clifford Husbands, and Prime Minister Freundel Stuart warmly greeted the family and expressed words of comfort at this time of mourning.
The family was joined by hundreds who gathered in Parliament Yard queuing to file past the late leader, and pay their last respects.
Thompson, 48, died on Saturday after battling pancreatic cancer. He died at home in Mapps, St Philip.
The late leader will be buried next Wednesday. There will be a funeral service at Kensington Oval, followed by burial at St John’s Parish Church. (CM)
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