CONDOLENCES FROM PRIME MINISTER BRUCE GOLDING ON THE PASSING OF TREVOR RHONE

CONDOLENCES FROM
PRIME MINISTER BRUCE GOLDING ON THE
PASSING OF TREVOR RHONE

In Parliament on Tuesday, September 15, Prime Minister Bruce Golding led tributes and condolences made on the passing of playwright Trevor Rhone who died that afternoon.

The Prime Minister said of Mr. Rhone, "He was one of the most accomplished, most outstanding of our playwrights and writers. Even in recent times he did a one man show in which he spoke about Bellas Gate. He has won many awards including the Musgrave Gold Medal, and overseas he was only recently selected for the National Black Theatre Living Legend Award in the United States of America. A giant of Jamaican theatre and somebody who has made a signal contribution to our cultural development."

The Prime Minister noted Mr. Rhone's close connection with his own district, Bellas Gate in St Catherine; and he noted that his own father, Tacius Golding, was also from Bellas Gate. Mr. Golding expressed his condolences to Mr. Rhone's widow Camille and his children.