BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - NOTED THINKERS, scholars and decision-makers of the Caribbean Community continue to offer moving tributes to the remarkable contributions of Dr Norman Girvan who died last week in Havana, Cuba, where he was undergoing emergency medical attention following serious injuries suffered from a fall while on a visit to Dominica.

Death came for the Jamaican-born economist, whose name is indelibly linked with new thinking for post-Independence regional economic integration, as he steadfastly kept hope alive for CARICOM governments to act in unison for implementation of some of the better known works submitted by him and distinguished regional colleagues now respectfully mourning his passing.

Secretary General of CARICOM, Irwin La Rocque, may well have summed up widespread sentiments on the passing of this 72-year-old regional icon when he noted this past weekend: “The death of Professor Girvan, an outstanding advocate for Caribbean integration, has left a void in the intellectual capital of the Caribbean Community