Basseterre, St. Kitts, August 30, 2018 – The late St. Kitts and Nevis High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Cedric Harper who passed away in Kingston on Wednesday “served the Federation with utmost distinction and rendered sterling service as a member of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps of St. Christopher and Nevis where he served in various capacities since 1983.”
“I am deeply grieved to learn of the passing of Mr. Cedric Harper. He was a close personal friend whom I greatly admired. He was a wonderful, kind and intellectual man, who loved history almost as much as he loved his country. He was a very knowledgeable, insightful and cultured individual who was a pleasure to talk to and engage,” said former Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas in an official statement on Thursday.
Dr. Douglas who had the honour of appointing Mr. Harper as High Commissioner of Jamaica and non-resident Ambassador to Cuba in 2001, said: “I will always remember him for the humble, yeoman service he provided to students from our Federation studying in Jamaica. I will never forget the way in which he graciously accommodated and facilitated the travels of the first cohort of students who went to study in Cuba. He was a model of a man who has always been an inspiration to me. I will miss him greatly.”
In his tribute to the Cayon, St. Kitts-born educator turned diplomat, Dr. Douglas, the Federation’s Loyal Leader of the Opposition noted that Mr. Harper as an Educator rose from his teaching position at the Basseterre Boys School in St. Kitts to Principal of the Gingerland High School in Nevis and “touched and shaped the lives of many of the nation’s best and brightest.”
Mr. Harper was pre-deceased by his wife Dr. Barbara Lyle-Harper in November 2008.
On behalf of the official opposition and the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party, Dr. Douglas extended “deepest sympathies to Mr. Harper’s children Adrienne and Douglas and two surviving sisters, Ms. Dora Stevens and Ms. Myrtle Heath residing in Antigua and Barbuda. May the peace of God and loving memories comfort them in their time of bereavement.”
Dr. Douglas also extended condolences to the staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of St. Kitts and Nevis and members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps in the Federation and Jamaica.
In this file photo are the first batch of St. Kitts and Nevis students who graduated from Cuban universities with Ambassador Harper and then Prime Minister Douglas
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