Speaking about Poitier's death, Mitchell said, "We've lost a great Bahamian and I've lost a personal friend." Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper said he was "conflicted with great sadness and a sense of celebration when I learned of the passing of Sir Sidney Poitier. "Sadness that he would no longer be here to tell him how much he means to us, but a celebration that he did so much to show the world that those from the humblest beginnings can change the world and that we gave him his flowers while he was with us," Cooper said. A cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Read more https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4414838/sidney-poitier-dead-lilies-of-the-field-actor/
