The Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 48. He died at his home in St Philip on the Caribbean island. He had been ill since March and had travelledseveral times to New York for treatment. Mr. Thompson was elected Prime Minister in January 2008. Governor General Sir Clifford Husbands has appointed the Attorney General and Deputy PM Freundel Stuart to head the government until elections in 2012. David John Howard Thompson, the sixth Prime Minister of Barbados, was born on 25 December 1961 in England but grew up in Barbados.