Former Barbadian journalist George Hall has died.

The 85-year-old stalwart died yesterday morning after a brief period of hospitalisation. Hall’s widow Joyce to whom he had been married for 27 years, said her husband passed away at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday morning after being hospitalised for about one week.

An alumnus of Combermere School, Hall joined the Barbados Advocate as a linotype operator after leaving school and was later promoted to that newspaper’s Editorial Department as a news reporter.