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Chroniclesofa ChronicGuyana Chronicler
By Earl Bousquet
best of minds that our dear country continues to produce, regardless of the challenges.”
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The Guyana-born regional veteran, who mentored many Caribbean media personalities, heard too from regional colleagues, including President of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) Wesley Gibbings, veteran Caribbean broadcasters, Julian Rogers, Sandra Baptiste, Andy Johnson, Orin Gordon, Kaymar Jordan and Peter Richards, Jamaican writer, Mark Lee and Saint Lucia’s Earl Bousquet.
Regional figures congratulating Singh also included: Former Saint Lucia Prime Minister, Dr Kenny D. Anthony; Director General of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr. Didacus Jules; former Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Dr June Soomer; Grenada’s Ambassador to CARICOM, Senator Arley Gill; Barbados MP, Trevor Prescod; Dominica’s Ambassador, Damien Dublin; US-based Grenadian journalist, Don Rojas; Saint Lucia’s Monsignor, Patrick Anthony; Dr Patrick ‘PI’ Gomes and former Grenada Speaker of Parliament, Chester Humphrey.
Singh served as a Caribbean journalist for 60 years, starting at the then Guiana Graphic (Predecessor of the Guyana Chronicle) in 1957 and retiring at age 80 in 2017.
He was honoured several years ago by the University of the West Indies (The UWI) with a Doctorate of Letters for his writings and was also the recipient of several other regional citations.
The veteran Caribbean journalist now resides with relatives in Trinidad & Tobago while ironing-out his immigration status there, but also visits Guyana from time to time.
