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MAN CHOKED BY FOOD.  At 10 o'clock on Thursday night, Dr. H. McLean, of Parker street, Williams-  town, was called to the Royal Hotel, Nelson place, Williamstown. He found James MacIldowney, aged 56 years, single, in a state of collapse. The doctor ascertained that MacIldowney, while eating, had been choked by a piece of food which had lodged in his throat. He died soon afterwards. The body was removed to the Williamstown police station, and afterwards to the Williamstown morgue. It is believed that MacIldowney has a brother at Ascot vale. The police are endeavouring to communicate with him.

From the Argus, Saturday 19th April 1924

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Prominent attorney, newspaper columnist and constitutional expert Ezra Alleyne has passed away. He was 78 years old. Ezra Alleyne was elected to Parliament in 1976 on a Barbados Labour Party ticket where he was then the youngest person in the House of Assembly at 32 years of age. He served as Deputy Speaker. Ezra Allyene was an old scholar of the Combermere School and studied law at Queen Mary College and the University of London in the UK. He was a lecturer in constitutional and corporate law at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus and wrote a regular column for the Nation Newspaper. #thechasefiles #ezraalleynedead #notabledeaths #ezraalleyne #barbados #politicians #lawyers https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf3RfWJu50jEokP9b2ZSK1-rxdl9QG4eHN2MUI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Douglas Boviere Trotman was a Barbadian lawyer, politician, and former election candidate. He was born on 8 March 1965 in Barbados. He attended the St. Martins Boys School in Saint Philip, the Lodge School in St. John, and the CaveHill Campus of the University of the West Indies where he completed his undergraduate degree, majoring in Computer Science. He taught computer science and mathematics at the Coleridge and Parry Secondary school before receiving a scholarship to study in the Peoples Republic of China. He graduated from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Peoples Republic of China in 1994 with a Masters of Engineering in Computer Software and returned to Barbados where he lectured in computer science, in the faculties of Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. He also implemented the Certificate in Information in the faculty of Natural Sciences. Trotman read for the law degree at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies and completed the Legal Education Certificate at the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in 2003. He was called to the Local Bar in 2003 and has been in private practice siiice then. He has tutored Administrative Law in the Faculty of Law, Cave Hill Campus and Contract Law at the Barbados Community College. Trotman unsuccessful contested the St. Philip South constituency as an independent in the 2008 general election. Trotman is the widower of the late Kathy-Anne Trotman. He leaves to mourn five children. #thechasefiles #notabledeaths #douglastrotman https://www.instagram.com/p/CXG_FW3pmExcQepd2XDP7Sb1AykQt47MznnSdE0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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“ Local Cyclist Killed

Whilst riding his bicycle home from work on Wednesday evening, Keith McDiven, 19 years, of Alma-terrace Newport, a well-known member of the Williamstown Professional Cycling Club, caught his wheels in the. tram line at the intersection of Johnston and Brunswick streets, Fitzroy, throwing him to the roadway. Before he could recover a tramway bus ran over him. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, but died soon after admittance. “

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If you learned to drive in the 1980 or 90s then you have heard the name RICHARD COX! He was one of if not the first person who made a career out of teaching people to drive defensively in Barbados. If you attended Cox’s School of Defensive Driving then you were taught well. He would not take you in for your Driver’s License Test if there was any chance that you were not ready. Mr. Cox spent over 30 years as an advocate for road safety and made a valuable contribution to our society. It is with great sadness that we learned Mr. Cox passed away yesterday morning after suffering a brief illness. May he Rest In Peace and Rise In Glory. #RestInPeace #DefensiveDriving #CoxSchoolOfDriving #BarbadianAdvocate #RichardCox #roadsafety #notabledeath https://www.instagram.com/p/BxxCSGyA9N7/?igshid=1tp9hgj22eqyx