Commonwealth Secretary-General pays tribute to Sir Lynden Pindling
30 August 2000
The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Mr Don McKinnon, has paid tribute to the former Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Sir Lynden Pindling, who died on Saturday. In a letter to the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, the Rt Hon Hubert Ingraham, the Secretary-General said:
It was with a deep sense of loss and sadness that I learnt of the death of former Prime Minister the Rt Hon Sir Lynden Pindling. With his death, the Bahamas has lost the father of the nation and the Caribbean has lost one of its greatest sons. Sir Lynden Pindling will be long remembered for his charismatic leadership stemming from the time he helped to found the Progressive Liberal Party leading the Bahamas to independence in 1973. The Commonwealth has cause to be grateful for Sir Lynden Pindling's role in the association and he will be remembered for his chairmanship of the Nassau CHOGM in 1985 and, more recently, of the Commonwealth Observer Mission to the May 1998 general elections in Lesotho.
My sympathies and those of the Commonwealth are with you and the people of the Bahamas at this time. I also extend my personal condolences to the family of the late Prime Minister.
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