Retired Chief Planning Education Officer and former Stabroek News Sports Editor, Gladstone Oscar Critchlow passed away in New York on February 19, 2010. He was 85.
Critchlow was the sports editor of Stabroek News for a few years in the early 1990s. Stabroek News Editor-in-Chief Anand Persaud expressed condolences on behalf of the entire newspaper to Critchlow’s family on his passing. He said Critchlow would be well-remembered for his keen insight into cricket and other sports and his engaging personality.
Persaud said while Critchlow held pugnaciously to his views he was also a gentleman who dispensed fatherly advice to the many staff members he came into contact with on a daily basis.
Critchlow leaves to mourn nine children and his wife, Daphnie. His funeral service and burial will be held in New Jersey today.