Former Jamaican prime minister Edward Seaga in 2002, after voting in the general election. His death was announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, a Seaga protege, who did not offer details. Mr. Seaga was being treated for cancer at a hospital in Miami, according to Jamaican media reports. At 29, he was appointed to Jamaica’s upper legislative house by Alexander Bustamante, the Labour Party founder and Jamaica’s first prime minister. They divorced in 1996, and Mr. Seaga married Carla Vendryes, a sociology researcher, the next year.

Source: Washington Post May 29, 2019 16:45 UTC