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Sydney Simmons passes

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FORMER TEACHER, broadcaster, manufacturing executive and author Sydney Simmons has died.

Reports are that he had been ailing for some time and passed away in hospital Tuesday.

Simmons started as a teacher at Erdiston Model School in 1962 and later moved into radio, becoming one of the earliest scriptwriters for the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). (JS)

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