Caribbean has lost another Great Educator with passing of Prof. Aggrey Brown

Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator Arthur Williams says Jamaica and the Caribbean region have lost another of  their great educators with the passing today of Professor Emeritus Dr. Aggrey Brown, former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education and former Director  of the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), at the University of the West Indies .

Professor Brown will be especially  remembered by the  region’s many successful  journalists and communications specialists  whose  young minds he helped to mould during his 22 years as head of Carimac, Minister Williams said.

‘We have lost one of another of  our great thinkers, an intellectual  with an  extraordinary mind and an outstanding ability to impart his years of knowledge and training to the many who passed through the Mona campus of the UWI’,  he added.

Minister Williams  said he recalled  Professor Brown’s earlier   years when he was regarded as one of the leading and most outspoken voices on radio working with the then Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation and in particular his  hosting of the  popular call-in  programme 'Public Eye'.                                         

‘On behalf of the government, I wish to extend condolences to his wife Suzanne and his children, family and the thousands of students whose lives he impacted,’ Minister Williams said.