Barbados PM to United Workers Party conventioneers: How do you follow in the footsteps of a larger-than-life predecessor?

St. Lucia Star "Even considering the present political environment, it came as something of a surprise that little was made of David Thompson’s contribution the United Workers Party’s first convention since the passing of Sir John Compton. After all, Thompson is hardly run-of-the-mill political chopped liver.
Not only is he a long-time personal friend of the UWP’s man of the moment Stephenson King, he had recently shattered Owen Arthur’s dream of a fourth term as prime minister of Barbados. If all of that did not imbue Thompson with a god-like aura, then toss in the fact that the new prime minister is married to a daughter of legendary Henry Giraudy, lifetime chairman of the UWP— now deceased. Giraudy, that is!"