David DeCaires
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David de Caires was a Guyanese
solicitor
. He was also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News
.
Trained as a solicitor
, de Caires founded Stabroek News in 1986 with the help of his wife and Ken Gordon of the Trinidad and Tobago Express
. He wanted a paper that promoted an open society based on the rule of law, a free market economy and the holding of free and fair elections. Stabroek News is known for the readers letter section in which readers can ask questions and voice their opinions. These sections often reached three pages a day.
De Caires suffered a heart attack on August 14, 2008.
He spent time in hospital in Guyana
and Trinidad and Tobago
. He was later transported to a hospital in Barbados
where he died on the morning of November 1, 2008. He is survived by his widow Doreen, son Brendan, and daughter Isabelle who is married to the former England cricket captain-turned-journalist Mike Atherton. http://stabroeknews.com/news/david-de-caires-remembered-as-man-who-touched-many-lives/
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
solicitor
Solicitor
Solicitors are lawyers who traditionally deal with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers , and a lawyer will usually only hold one title...
. He was also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News
Stabroek News
The Stabroek News is a privately owned newspaper published in Guyana.It was first published in November 1986, first as a weekly but it later changed to a daily print...
.
Trained as a solicitor
Solicitor
Solicitors are lawyers who traditionally deal with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers , and a lawyer will usually only hold one title...
, de Caires founded Stabroek News in 1986 with the help of his wife and Ken Gordon of the Trinidad and Tobago Express
Trinidad and Tobago Express
The Trinidad and Tobago Express is one of three daily newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago. The Express is published by the Caribbean Communications Network and is headquartered on Independence Square in Port of Spain. The newspaper commenced operations on June 6, 1967...
. He wanted a paper that promoted an open society based on the rule of law, a free market economy and the holding of free and fair elections. Stabroek News is known for the readers letter section in which readers can ask questions and voice their opinions. These sections often reached three pages a day.
De Caires suffered a heart attack on August 14, 2008.
He spent time in hospital in Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
and Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
. He was later transported to a hospital in Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
where he died on the morning of November 1, 2008. He is survived by his widow Doreen, son Brendan, and daughter Isabelle who is married to the former England cricket captain-turned-journalist Mike Atherton. http://stabroeknews.com/news/david-de-caires-remembered-as-man-who-touched-many-lives/