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The Caribbean me­dia com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the loss of one of its most re­spect­ed voic­es, vet­er­an re­gion­al jour­nal­ist Rick­ey Singh, who passed away on Sat­ur­day in Bar­ba­dos.

Born in Guyana, Singh be­gan his ca­reer as a gen­er­al re­porter be­fore swift­ly ris­ing through the ranks to be­come a Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter at the Guiana Graph­ic, the pre­de­ces­sor of the Guyana Chron­i­cle. His work would go on to span decades, coun­tries, and some of the most defin­ing po­lit­i­cal mo­ments in Caribbean his­to­ry.

Singh’s jour­nal­is­tic jour­ney was marked by courage, tenac­i­ty, and a flair for un­cov­er­ing the un­told. His ca­reer was punc­tu­at­ed with dra­mat­ic and of­ten per­ilous mo­ments — from nar­row­ly es­cap­ing a lynch­ing while on as­sign­ment in Bux­ton, to sur­viv­ing an en­counter with a no­to­ri­ous ‘Death Squad’ in George­town’s Botan­i­cal Gar­dens, and even a near-fa­tal poi­son­ing in­ci­dent at work.