Former Belize Trade Ambassador Adalbert Tucker died in Jamaica last night. Tucker had been ailing from complications of prostate cancer. He went to Jamaica - where his sister is the honorary counsel for Belize - to seek treatment, but his condition was too advanced to be effectively contained. He took a turn for the worse two weeks ago and died last night.
Tucker has an impressive international resume as an international development consultant. He had graduate degrees from UWI and Harvard, and worked in Jamaica during the Manley years, and also in Namibia, Zimbabwe and Liberia. But his friend and former boss Wilfred Elrington remembers him best as a humanist and a patriot that he first met as a boy on west Street in Belize City:..
Hon. Wilfred Elrington
"A very passionate nationalist; very powerful sense of humor; a tremendous memory and just a very kind individual. He really was into education. He saw education as being vital for us. A good human being; being would have lost a good son, a very solid, native son who to the extent that he could made his contribution to Belize different ways."
Tucker was best known in Belize for the BEL-RIV Foundation in the Belize River Valley.
Arrangement are being made for Tucker's burial in Belize.
We could not reach his family to confirm his age, but Elrington said Tucker was in his late 60's.
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