Atlanta radio personality Barry Douglas aka “Barry D” passed on to the next life recently in the ATL. He was 58. Barry was born in Old Harbour, Jamaica and was educated at Vere Technical High School and UWI. He was the popular host at 1570 AM WIGO and before that he was on Supreme Carib Radio also in Atlanta. He is survived by his mother Myrtle Rule, daughters Lisa Williams and Rochelle Lowe, sons Claude and Patrick, six grandchildren, sisters, brothers and other relatives.
Barry Douglas
Dr. Omar Davies
The International Journal of Public Theology recently published an article titled, Songs of Worship in Life and at Death written by Omar Davies, Jamaica’s Minister of Transport, Works and Housing. The article analyses and contrasts two songs that reflect on the meaning of life and death: the traditional hymn, ‘Farther Along’ and the song by late reggae icon, Peter Tosh, ‘Jah Say No’. Both songs consider how believers engage with the challenges of life.
David Panton is now an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta.
Panton who lives in Buckhead is co-founder and partner of Navigation Capital Partners.
He was born in Mandeville and credits the Rev. Keith Panton, his father, as being an inspiring role model who worked his way “from growing up poor” to becoming the first black chief executive of a Jamaican company. The senior Panton later became a priest, but the allure of business had been embedded in his son.
Panton, a Rhodes Scholar, holds a PhD from Oxford University and was the youngest member of his undergraduate class at Princeton University at the age of 20. Then, at Harvard Law School, he was one of two black presidents in the history of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. The other was President Barack Obama.
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