Former Director of Music of the Royal Barbados Police Force Band, Kenrick Moore, has died. He was 79.
Moore passed away at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the early hours of this morning after a battle with cancer.
The retired Senior Superintendant was appointed Director of Music in 1987, and the state funeral of Prime Minister Errol Barrow in June of that year was Moore’s first major assignment in that role.
Moore joined the Police Force Band in 1944 as a recruit at the age of 13.
He was instrumental in the introduction into the band of its first three female members – Yolande Bourne, Dorian Seale and Juan Walrond, former students of the Alleyne School, where he conducted the school band.
Moore, who retired in 1991, served for several years as a judge in the Pic-O-De-Crop competition, acting as chief judge at one point; and in recent years had devoted himself mostly to judging in the Junior Calypso Monarch Competition.
