Veteran journalist Charles de Florimonte yesterday passed away at his Subryanville home, one month after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, his relatives said.
He was 70 years old and was in the process of completing a book on cooking in Guyana.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, Wendy de Florimonte, one of Charles de Florimonte’s daughters said that her father had had a distinguished career as a journalist here and abroad. He had worked with several news agencies and was also the co-publisher of the Guyana Times at one time.
A father of nine, De Florimonte started his journalistic career at the Mirror newspaper in the 1960s and then moved to the Guyana Chronicle where he worked as a sub-editor for a number of years. He was also a correspondent for the Caribbean News Agency CANA and the UK Observer, and was at one time editor of the Dominica Chronicle. De Florimonte had also worked at the former Guyana Information Service, the Kaieteur News and the Evening News. He was Stabroek News’s first sub-editor when the paper began in Queenstown in November 2006.
Wendy said that after her father left the media he did administrative duties for the Guyana Weightlifting Association as well as the Guyana Eagles Football Club.
“He was a very sociable person, well respected and was firm and had a no-nonsense approach to life,” De Florimonte’s daughter said.
She added that her father was always there for his children, loved them and cared for them. He leaves to mourn his wife, Bertina De Florimonte and scores of other relatives.
