FORMER PARLIAMENTARIAN, long-standing social activist and Pan Africanist Glenroy Straughn is dead.
Straughn, who turned 86 on February 12, died yesterday morning after ailing for several years as a result of Alzheimer’s disease, which caused him to be institutionalized.
He sat in the House as a Barbados Labour Party representative for St Joseph from 1958 to 1961 after winning a by-election when Sir Grantley Adams became Federal Prime Minister.
Straughn was also a former chairman of the Transport Board, and held leadership roles in the Bussa Foundation, the National Council on Substance Abuse and the Barbados Road Safety Association (BRSA). As an educator, he taught in Aruba where he helped in organizing Caribbean workers in the oil industry, and later taught at Combermere School. (RJ)
