Solomon Island's first Governor General Sir Baddeley Devesi will be farewelled in a funeral service today.
The 71-year-old former statesman, who passed away on Thursday, served as Governor-General of the Solomon Islands for two consecutive terms - from July 1978 to July 1988.
Later he also served as Foreign Minister, Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the nineties.
Devesi once criticised England, its colonial master, for its kacl of planning for the handover for a smooth transition to independence, which eventually led to the governmental crises the Solomons have experienced following independence. He quipped that "that the British Empire was departing behind a system of English the law and Parliament, but for an isle country with 4 volcanoes and 70 dialects."In particular he was worried about the deficit of planning for economic development. funeral directors Adelaide
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