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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
 The Free National Movement is saddened by the death of Warren Levarity, a founding Father of our great party. Mr. Warren J. Levarity was the former MP for West End & Bimini, and former Minister responsible for Out Island Affairs.
As a young man, Mr. Levarity was from an early age in the forefront of the struggle for Majority Rule, particularly in his home Island of Grand Bahama, where he was elected in the pivotal elections of 1967, which ushered in Majority Rule. As one of the Ministers in the First PLP Cabinet, Mr. Levarity showed the depths of his love for democracy and the empowerment of ordinary Bahamians, when he caused the first White Paper calling for the establishment of a system of Local Government as early as 1967. Sadly, Mr. Levarity had to wait nearly Thirty years to see his dream of local empowerment fulfilled by the first FNM Government.
It was Mr. Levarity’s strong commitment to freedom and democracy which led him to join with seven other dissidents, led by the Late Cecil Wallace-Whitfield, in breaking with the first Pindling administration in 1970. From this group, called “the Dissident Eight”, was formed the Free-PLP, and a year later, the Free National Movement. Mr. Levarity contested the 1972 and 1977 general elections as an FNM candidate.
After the defeat of the FNM in 1977 Mr. Levarity retired from Public life.
In December 2010 Warren Levarity was awarded the Royal Honour by Her Majesty the Queen of being elevated to the rank of a Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George (CMG) for his outstanding sacrifices and dedication in the cause of freedom and democracy.
On behalf of my wife Patricia, the Free National Movement and every Bahamian, I wish to offer my deepest and most sincere condolences to his wife, Vera, children, Martian, Denise, Carol and Warren, as well as the wider family of our fallen brother, Warren Levarity.
May he Rest in Peace.
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