I was born in Black River, Jamaica, and worked for half a century as a reporter and editor in the Caribbean, Canada and America. The son of an agricultural instructor, I grew up in Portland and St. Elizabeth. As a 16-year-old student at Munro College, I won a World Youth Forum essay competition and spent several months attending English grammar schools, staying with English families and taking part in various "brains trusts."
My first career venture was as a management trainee at a resort hotel, but I quickly gave that up to try my hand at journalism in Port au Prince, Haiti. After three years in Haiti, I immigrated to Canada and landed a reporting job in Timmins, Ontario, nearly 500 miles north of Toronto. I worked my way up to the Toronto Star and the Toronto Telegram, both metropolitan daily newspapers, and went on to become editor of Toronto Life magazine and senior editor of The Canadian, a weekend supplement carried by newspapers across Canada.
I twice returned to work in Jamaica, first for the Industrial Development Corporation in the mid-Sixties, and then for the Jamaica Daily News in the early Seventies.
In 1979, I moved to Florida, where I joined The Tampa Tribune as a roving columnist. I later became the editor of the daily Clearwater Sun. After the Sun closed in the late 1980s, I worked at various editorial jobs in Florida. I have won many statewide awards for commentary and editorial writing. When I retired two years ago, the municipality of Plant City, which I covered for the Tampa Tribune, issued a proclamation in my honor.
I live in Lakeland, Florida, with my wife, Sandra, three cats, and a poodle named Maxi – as well as countless squirrels and birds. Sandra is a former magazine and newspaper writer. I have three grown children, Ross, Grace and Christine, and two grandsons, Jonathan and Adam. Jonathan is a student at the University of Florida, and Adam attends high school in Miami.
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