Legendary Caribbean journalist Owen Baptiste is dead at age 87. He died on Tuesday night at the West Shore Medical Centre from complications of diabetes.
Owen Baptiste was the former Editor-in-Chief at the Trinidad Guardian, Trinidad Express, the Catholic News and the now-defunct Caribbean Contact. Baptiste also served as a technical adviser to the Jamaica Observer in the company’s early years and as the executive chairman of the Barbados-based Caribbean News Agency (CANA).
Owen Baptiste Dead at 87
He also published a magazine called People through his company Inprint Caribbean and several books, among them ‘The Seagulls Won’t Come Down: A Caribbean journalist’s account of his 12 years’ odyssey in the Middle Kingdom’. The book is about his 12 years living in China.
According LOOP TT, a journalist for more than six decades, Baptiste worked at newspapers in the Caribbean as a reporter, columnist, and editor. He also visited China in 1990, 1992, and 1997 with his wife, Rhona, as guests of the China Association for Cultural Exchanges with Foreign Countries.
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In 1998 they went to teach English writing and oral English at a teachers’ college in Guangzhou. At the end of eight years, they moved to Beijing to further explore the history, culture, and politics of the Chinese.
Owen Baptiste’s death is the second for the Baptiste family this year.
Their eldest son Marc passed away in Los Angeles in July.
Read the full story over at NY Carib News.
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