The passing of a verbal terror
The daily newspapers are printed in colour nowadays but , ironically, possess colourless journalists. Randy Rawlins was the last of that breed of hardworking, hard drinking and wenching writers.
Randy Rawlins would surely have been aggrieved if he was merely described as a journalist who would repair to his favourite bar at night after [...]
Loss of a Caribbean icon
Sir Ronald Sanders, Jamaican Observer
The entire Caribbean knows, in the inner place that is our Caribbean soul, that with Rex
Nettleford’s passing the region has lost an essence- an essential ingredient of our own
validation as a Caribbean civilisation.
THIS commentary is being written in the first blush of news that Rex Nettleford has died. I was overcome [...]
Colourful newsman Ossie Cordner mourned
Cordner was an acquaintance of cabinet ministers and top Government officials, over the past half century. He was a Trini to the bone who lived life to its fullest.
Ossie Cordner was the quintessential Trinidadian, living life to the max.
Cordner, who died after a brief illness on the eve of his 75th birthday, was a [...]
Death of CLICO stalwart
Kit Gonzalez was one of the stalwarts who worked hard to bring the company back to good health. He will be cremated on Friday, after a funeral service at the San Fernando Roman Catholic Church.
CLICO suffered a slight setback in its financial recovery mission with the death, Saturday last after a brief [...]
Veteran lawyer George Dhanny,82, dies
Dhanny probably went to his grave a bitter man. He lost his beloved Woodford Street property and died fighting to regain it.
Veteran lawyer Dr George Dhanny, 82, passed away last week- and, probably, died a somewhat bitter man.
Dhanny had an unresolved five- year battle with The Home Mortgage Bank (HMB) who foreclosed on his [...]
Farewell Sir John
-From Jules Ferdinand, The Vincentian r—————————————————————————
Many eyes were moist and teary when friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances gathered at the St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in St. Michael, Barbados, to say farewell to the human remains of the late Sir John Stanley Goddard on Monday, August 24, 2009. Sir John, as he was fondly called, [...]
Waldo Nunez broke colour bar in the oilfields
Nunez built a reputation as a tough industrial relations professional who had to negotiate with a non-nonsense Oilfield Workers Trade Union
Death of a colourful newsman
He was a dedicated workaholic journalist who probably had equal quantities of black printers’ ink and Old Oak White rum in his bloodstream.