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Former Education Minister's Teenaged Son Passes
posted (September 24, 2012)
Former Minister of Education and three-Term Lake I representative Cordel Hyde is grieving tonight after the loss of his 18 year old son, Khalid.

As was first announced when Hyde stepped down as a candidate earlier this year, Khalid Hyde was diagnosed with cancer. KREM Radio reports that he had a rare type of tumor on the heart called Large B Cell Lymphoma.

After falling seriously ill earlier in the year - and being hospitalized for 3 months Doctors believed he was making a remarkable recovery but then the tumor returned and the young man succumbed on Sunday evening in New York.

The body of Khalid Hyde is expected to be brought back to Belize for the funeral following a service in New York.

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