Guyanese-born regional journalist, George Alleyne, passed away suddenly at his home in Barbados on Friday. He was 61.
The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) mourned his passing in a release on Friday.
The release said that Alleyne started his journalistic career at the Government Information Service in the early 1980s. He then transferred to the state-owned Guyana Chronicle, the lone daily newspaper at the time.
Alleyne served at the Guyana Chronicle where he covered politics, sports, and trade. Around 1989 he migrated to Canada and published several articles for ethnic newspapers in Canada while there up to the mid-nineties.
He returned home to Guyana for a few years and then moved to Barbados to join his Barbadian father and sisters in Barbados. There he joined the Carib-bean News Agency (CANA) as an information specialist sub-editing, reporting and writing features on the news desk of the CANA Wire Service until its merger with the Caribbean Broadcasting Union to become the Caribbean Media Corporation in 2000.
Over the last eight years he was a freelance reporter for Barbados Today. He was also a very active contributor to New York-based Caribbean Life newspaper – the largest Carib-bean publication in the NY metropolitan area, covering regional affairs.
