Irreplaceable, irrepressible John
Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer
JOHN MAXWELL, the fiery journalist and environmentalist, died from lung cancer late Friday at the age of
Maxwell was diagnosed with cancer in December 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 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 voice 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, Maxwell was the eldest of three children for Baptist minister John William Maxwell and his wife Zelma. He was controversial during his years at Calabar High School and Jamaica College where he clashed with adminis
Veteran journalist and University lecturer John Maxwell is dead.
Mr Maxwell died on Friday afternoon from respiratory failure at his home in St Andrew. He was
His career in journalism spanned more than 60 years during which he worked in both the print and electronic media.
He entered the profession in when he joined the Gleaner Company. On leaving the Gleaner after three years, Mr Maxwell worked with the weekly newspaper, the Public Opinion and later moved onto the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC).
He worked at the British Broadcasting Corporation from to but returned to Jamaica for the General Election in which he unsuccessfully ran for the People's National Party (PNP) against the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Edward Seaga for the West Kingston seat.
In recent years, Mr Maxwell was a columnist with the Jamaica Observer newspaper.
He was also a lecturer at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus.
Environment loses a friend in Maxwell
Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer
Few persons in the history of modern Jamaica are as controversial as John Maxwell, the fiery, bushy-haired journalist and environmentalist who died last Friday at age
A hero to the generation of journalists who emerged during the politically hostile s, Maxwell was viewed as an enfant terrible by conservatives during that period when he openly supported the socialist policies of Prime Minister Michael Manley.
Maxwell's wife of 17 years, Marjan de Bruin, said he returned to Jamaica in late October from the Netherlands where he had received treatment for lung cancer. A lifelong smoker, he had been diagnosed with the disease in
"He had been pretty stable between August and October. The doctors thought he was doing well," de Bruin told The Gleaner yesterday. "He had difficulty walking but was happy to be home."
To the end, which came at his St Andrew home at p.m., de Bruin said her husband was concerned about environmental matters. They were in the process of selecting some of his columns for republication.
His dedication to protecting the environment was unyielding and won the admiration of many
John Maxwell
There are two huge international conferences taking place this week: one, in New York is called the World Economic Forum and is attended by most of the richest and most powerful men in the world. There may, actually, be some women at this conference, but most of them are somebody's aide or spokesperson.
Half a world away, across the Equator in Porto Alegre, Brazil, another international meeting, The World Social Forum, is happening, attended probably by as many women as men, representing rich and poor people from all over the world.
As stark as the contrasts are between the two conferences, they are both discussing the same thing: the future of humanity. In New York, the main discussions centre on how to make capitalism palatable to the people of the world. Perhaps, I state the thing crassly. The real title is "Building a coalition for a stable world".
One of the speakers at the WEF meeting was Mr Paul O'Neill, US secretary of the treasury who warned poor nations of the dangers of debt. He should know, since he is the former head of Alcoa which pleads that it can't do business in Jamaica unless we give up the bauxite levy, which was some recompense f
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