The Senate on Friday paid tribute to the late former chairman of the RJRGLEANER Group, Oliver Clarke.

“The tongue of good report has been heard on his behalf across media landscape and I would ask the clerk to write to Mrs Clarke indicating that the senate has observed his passing and offering our sincere condolences,” Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson said just before the close of the sitting.

He was joined by Opposition Senator Dr Floyd Morris who remembered Clarke for his contribution to a committee looking at the working conditions of parliamentarians.

Also paying tribute to Clarke was Leader of Government Business, Kamina Johnson Smith who said Clarke sometimes provided the space for her to discuss sensitive foreign affairs matters.

Clarke led The Gleaner as chairman and managing director for more than four decades.