John maxwell jamaica biography sample

Ian Boyne, Contributor

I was enjoying the early Saturday afternoon ride when I was jolted by a headline glimpsed on a newspaper rack: 'John Maxwell is dead'. "Maxwell dead!" I exclaimed to my wife. As she continued driving, I felt as though I had left a whole chunk of my life behind.

John Maxwell is dead? I had been expecting it - but it hit me no less. I did not sleep well that Saturday night. The memories kept waking me up. Memories of sitting in the foyer of the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC), waiting for John to finish his Public Eye show so we could leave together to go to our favourite drinking haunt at Devon House where, inevitably, John would order his vodka and tonic and I my unlaced fruit punch.

Memories of our riding old Morris Oxford and Austin Cambridge taxis together to make it to Devon House, John puffing the ever-present cigarette, with the trade-mark bush-jacket, slippers and unruly hair. Memories of his Stony Hill home on

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Irreplaceable, irrepressible John

Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer

JOHN MAXWELL, the fiery journalist and environmentalist, died from lung cancer late Friday at the age of 76.

Maxwell was diagnosed with cancer in December 2008 and had been receiving treatment for the disease in The Netherlands. He returned to Jamaica in July last year to accept an honorary degree from the University of the West Indies which recognised his 57-year career as a journalist and his tireless fight to protect Jamaica's environment.

In an interview with The Gleaner last year, Maxwell blamed his illness on a lifelong smoking habit. It caused him to cut back writing Common Sense, his weekly column for the Jamaica Observer newspaper.

Maxwell's Frederick Douglass-styled hair and raspy röst made him a distinctive public figure. He worked at several publications including The Gleaner and Public Opinion, a weekly newspaper which supported the People's National Party (PNP).

Born in Trelawny, Ma

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