Former Editor of the Guyana Chronicle Anthony Calder died yesterday after a prolonged illness. He was fifty-seven.
A press release from the Campbell-Calder family said yesterday he had passed away peacefully in his sleep at the family home in Beterverwagting.
The statement said his last post had been as Editor of the Guyana Chronicle, where he had also served for a considerable period as acting Editor-in-Chief. It went on to say that ‘Tony,’ as he was familiarly known, had embarked on his journalistic career as a freelancer. He was later to work as a reporter on both the New Nation and the Mirror newspapers, as well as with the Guyana Information Service as an Information Assistant. He was also at different times a local correspondent for the Caribbean News Agency, Chief News Editor of the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation and Editor-in-Chief of the Kaieteur News.
According to the family, Anthony Calder was one of four brothers – the others being Frank, Alvin and Nills Campbell – who served as full time journalists and editors of local media entities, and three of whom rose to the level of editor-in-chief.
Eucryl Anthony Calder leaves to mourn 13 children, ten siblings, and several nieces and nephews.
