IAN BOYNE : Giant in media, giant in life Journalists, leaders hail Ian Boyne

BY ALPHEA SAUNDERS Senior staff reporter saundersa@jamaicaobserver.com  Tuesday, December 19, 2017

A giant in media and in life is how the journalism fraternity, the country's leaders, and noted public figures described the late Ian Boyne following the shocking news of his passing yesterday.

Ian Boyne

The 60-year-old veteran journalist, a media celebrity and self-made success, died yesterday morning at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

Veteran journalist Ian Boyne
 (centre) and his wife, Margaret,
are joined by (from left) former prime
 minister Edward Seaga, current
Prime Minister Andrew Holness,
 former prime ministers PJ Patterson,
Portia Simpson Miller, and Bruce Golding

He had been hospitalised on December 3 after suffering a heart attack, but was released a few days later and was said to be recovering well.

Even those who had never spoken with nor seen Boyne in person have been deeply shaken by his passing, because, as one of Jamaica's most accomplished and respected journalists, he had, through his television programmes and writings, touched the lives of numerous Jamaicans for more than four decades.

Known for his 30-year-running television personality series Profile, his prolific columns in the Sunday Gleaner, as well as his debate-stimulating Religious HardtalkTV programme, Boyne's work spanned the full gamut of journalism and found its way into the homes, minds, and hearts of Jamaicans here and in the diaspora. more