{"id":25324,"date":"2019-03-30T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=25324"},"modified":"2019-03-30T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:46:32","slug":"ruling-party-mourns-passing-of-henderson-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ruling-party-mourns-passing-of-henderson-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruling Party Mourns Passing of Henderson Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The chairman of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP), Foreign Affairs Minister E.P Chet Greene, is expressing condolences at the passing of former parliamentarian and Cabinet minister, Henderson Simon.<\/p>

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Simon, died earlier today (Friday March 29) in Barbados where he was undergoing heart surgery. An engineer by training, Simon represented the St John\u2019s City West constituency in parliament from 1984 to 1994. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also served as Minister of State responsible for APUA. He was one of the founding partners of the highly respected engineering consultancy firm, Lewis, Simon and Partners.<\/p>

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\u201cComrade\nSimon, a true friend of the people, will long be remembered for his service in\npolitics, engineering and his penchant for education and youth counseling,\u201d\nGreene stated.<\/p>

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The ABLP\nchairman is also offering deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Simon\non behalf of the executive and general membership of the ABLP as well as on his\npersonal behalf.<\/p>\n

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The chairman of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP), Foreign Affairs Minister E.P Chet Greene, is expressing condolences at the passing of former parliamentarian and Cabinet minister, Henderson Simon. Simon, died earlier today (Friday March 29) in Barbados where he was undergoing heart surgery. An engineer by training, Simon represented the St John\u2019s City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nRuling Party Mourns Passing of Henderson Simon - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ruling-party-mourns-passing-of-henderson-simon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ruling Party Mourns Passing of Henderson Simon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The chairman of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP), Foreign Affairs Minister E.P Chet Greene, is expressing condolences at the passing of former parliamentarian and Cabinet minister, Henderson Simon. 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