those who have left us
The last saluteBy Judge Irving AndreOctober 17, 2011 9:00 a.m.Roseau, Dominica (TDN) — Mr. Wendell McKenzie Christian, who was born on March 5, 1921, stood tall throughout his life. He stood tall while growing up in the 1920s in the…
Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. As a child, she sang at the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, which…
CaribWorldNews, ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Weds. Mar. 4, 2008: Former Antigua & Barbuda Premier, Sir George Walter is dead. Walter died yesterday following a week of being hospitalized. He was 79. Walter was the former leader of the now defunct Progressive…
Tues. Feb. 12, 2008: Former Guyana government minister, Deryck Milton Alexander Bernard, was laid to rest yesterday following a funeral service at the Trinity Methodist Church. Guyana Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Opposition leader of the Peoples National Congress/Reform party,…
Waple Nedd, the former Grenadian Parliamentarian, passed away quietly at a Miami Hospital on the weekend. Waple Nedd, 71, a former Parliamentarian from 1972-76 under the late Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, died with her family at her bedside at…
We are all so sad to hear the passing of Shevon Jones . Shevon you will be remembered for the joyous and freespirited person you were. Your family and freinds sure miss you
Peter Winston passed on last week in the USA. Peter was a very loving son of Winnie Winston from massacreWe will miss you Peter, but we know you are in a better place. REST in PEACE
South African reggae musician Lucky Dube has been shot dead by armed robbers in Johannesburg. BBC News website readers react to his death and share their memories. The death of the reggae star has shocked the entire world. I really…
Former Minister of Communication Works and Housing, Alleyne Carbon: Friday 8 March, 1996: News from the Village of Cottage and Capuchin, says that, former Communication Works & Housing Minister Alleyne Carbon, in the former Dominica Freedom Party Government, presumably drowned…
Another of Dominica’s pioneers in industry died at the age of eighty-five. He is Cecil Bellot original owner of Bello Products. He passed away on Friday 04 September, 1996. Mr. Bellot took over the business “Parry W. Bellot Company Limited”,…
Dominica and the sporting fraternity mourned the death of businessman and sports enthusiast Ninian Marie. Known to most Dominicans as the little man with a big heart, he was a man of all seasons a man of many reasons. Mr.…
A prominent lawyer is dead Cherry Charles Beausoliel, who was known to many Dominicans as “Bo” because of his size, died here last Friday at the age of 81, he was born in St. Vincent, grew up in St Lucia,…
