BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former finance minister Sir Richard Christopher Haynes has died after a prolonged battle with throat cancer. He was 77.
Sir Richard, a surgeon, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Sunday.
The former opposition leader , who was once dubbed the second most powerful man in Barbados, because of his close relationship with the then prime minister Errol Barrow, is being remembered here as an intellect, an excellent doctor, a wily politician and a fierce, analytical debater.