{"id":14395,"date":"2010-08-03T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=14395"},"modified":"2010-08-03T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:12:50","slug":"dr-yankey-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/accidents-tragedy\/dr-yankey-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Dr. Yankey succumbs after car crash; PM Skerrit mourns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14414\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dr-Yankey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14414\" title=\"SONY DSC\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dr-Yankey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dr-Yankey.jpg 548w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dr-Yankey-63x113.jpg 63w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Yankey. Photo compliments Sean Douglas\/Government Press Secretary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ROSEAU,  Dominica, CMC &#8211; <\/strong>Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has described the  death of prominent national Dr Bernard Yankey as a blow for Dominica.<\/p>\n<p>Yankey,  a former Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) High  Commissioner to Canada died Tuesday after succumbing to injuries  sustained in a car crash on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d  say the country has lost a great citizen who selflessly gave so much of  his intellect and knowledge towards the development of Dominica and the  Caribbean,\u201d Skerrit said.<\/p>\n<p>The  Dominica Association of Catholic Men (DACOM) also said it was saddened  by the death of its member \u201cwho had given much\u201d to the group.<\/p>\n<p>Yankey,  who would have celebrated his 75th birthday later this month, also  served as and as director of the Economic Affairs unit at the OECS  Secretariat in St Lucia and was a former director of policy at the  Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Locally,  he had stints as the chairman of the Agricultural Industrial  Development Bank and the Dominica Banana Marketing Corporation. He also  served as the first president of the Dominica State College and was a board member  of the Dominica Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>He received the Sisserou Award of Honour in 1983 during Dominica\u2019s independence celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC &#8211; Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has described the death of prominent national Dr Bernard Yankey as a blow for Dominica. 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