KINGSTON, Jamaica  —  State minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Senator Abka Fitz-Henley says the thanksgiving service held on Wednesday for Barbados National Hero, Sir Garfield Sobers was a welcome celebration of Caribbean unity and excellence.

Minister Fitz-Henley represented the Government of Jamaica at the thanksgiving service which took place at the Kenginston Oval and had hundreds of people from Barbados and across the region in attendance.

“From time to time negative narratives dominate regional discourse, including the bane of insularity. None of that was in existence today as the Caribbean came together to celebrate a great man. It is good that we were able to experience a timely celebration of Caribbean unity and excellence”, Fitz-Henley told Observer Online shortly after the service concluded.