{"id":16520,"date":"2012-01-04T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T14:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16520"},"modified":"2012-01-06T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T16:58:21","slug":"state-funeral-for-sir-clifford-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/state-funeral-for-sir-clifford-darling","title":{"rendered":"State Funeral For Sir Clifford Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16533\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16533 \" title=\"ag0740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ag0740.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ag0740.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ag0740-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ag0740-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest the body of former Governor General Sir Clifford Darling Jan. 3 in the foyer of the House of Assembly. (BIS Photo\/Patrick Hanna)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Cabinet Office wishes to advise the public that a State Funeral will be held for the late Sir Clifford Darling, former Governor-General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Cabinet Minister, Parliamentarian and Trade Union Leader on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Zion Baptist Church, East and Shirley Streets.\u00a0 Interment follows in the Western Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Clifford died on December 27.\u00a0 He was 89 years old.\u00a0 He is survived by his wife, Lady Igrid Darling, his children and other relatives.<\/p>\n<p>His body will lie in State in the foyer of the House of Assembly at 2:30 p.m. from today, i.e. Tuesday, January 3 for public viewing until sunset on Wednesday, January 4.\u00a0 At 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, the Bearers\u2019 Party will take the body in procession from Parliament Square, East on Bay Street to Elizabeth Avenue to Shirley Street and West on Shirley Street into Zion Baptist Church, located on the corner of East and Shirley Streets.<\/p>\n<p>When the service is completed, Sir Clifford\u2019s body will be taken in procession and proceed west on Shirley Street to Prince&#8217;s Street, west on Prince&#8217;s Street to Duke Street and west on Duke Street to Cumberland Street and north on Cumberland to Malborough Street.\u00a0 The coterie will continue along, West on Malborough Street to west Bay Street and west along West Bay Street to Nassau Street travelling in a southern direction into the Western Cemetery where his body will be interred.<\/p>\n<p>The public is advised of road closure to vehicular traffic.\u00a0 Further announcements regarding road closure will follow.<\/p>\n<p>Further details regarding the state funeral will be released as information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A State Funeral will be held for the late Sir Clifford Darling, former Governor-General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Cabinet Minister, Parliamentarian and Trade Union Leader, on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at Zion Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-16520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-celebrities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}