Wilmot Perkins

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Wilmot "Motty" Perkins (also "Mutty" Perkins ; born September 3, 1931 in Portland , † February 10, 2012 in St. Andrew ) was a Jamaican radio presenter and journalist . He was considered the longest-serving and one of the most controversial talk show presenters in Jamaica.

Life

Perkins attended Calabar High School in St. Andrew and studied Anglican theology for some time at St. Peter's College, which he left without a degree in 1953. As early as the 1950s, he began his career as a journalist for the newspaper The Gleaner, for which he worked in the following years as a parliamentary reporter, news editor and columnist.

His first radio show was What's Your Grouse, which went on air on RJR in 1960. In the 1970s and 1980s, after moving to the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, he hosted Public Eye, then again on RJR Hot Line. When KLAS FM 89 started operations in the 1990s, Perkins had his radio show Straight Talk there , before he hosted Perkins On Line on Hot 102FM , a program in which callers talked to Perkins by phone about current political issues, but also about a lot others debated up to philosophical and theological subjects. The show became Jamaica's most popular radio talk show. In April 2002 he switched to this talk show on the Power 106 broadcaster, where he worked until shortly before his death.

Perkins was not only considered the longest-serving talk show host on Jamaican radio, but also one of the most controversial. Because of his radio broadcasts, in which he criticized the police, business people and politicians, several legal proceedings were brought against Perkins, most recently in July 2010 after parts of a speech were played on Perkins On Line , which the then senator of the opposition Andrew Gallimore on 28. June 2005 held before Parliament. Gallimore criticized Gordon Stewart and Chris Zacca in relation to their management of the airline Air Jamaica , which would have promoted other of their businesses at the expense of taxpayers. Gallimore himself was protected by his MP immunity , but Stewart, Zacca and the Air Jamaica Acquisition Group sued Perkins and his employer, the Independent Radio Company (IRC), for slandering themselves by repeating the speech in his program and in theirs Saw their reputation damaged. However, all of the - as has been alleged - a total of 28 proceedings against Perkins remained inconclusive over the course of time, in the last case, however, an appeal is still ongoing (as of February 24, 2012). His critical comments not only earned him legal proceedings, but his life was also threatened. According to a Gleaner report, a murder plot was uncovered in 1994 and as a result, Perkins was escorted to work at KLAS FM in Mandeville by police escorts for some time to protect him.

Perkins had been married to his wife for 56 years when he died on February 10, 2012 at the age of 80.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Remembering 'Motty' Perkins , go-jamaica.com, February 10, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  2. ^ When Perkins Sought The Priesthood , The Gleaner March 4, 2003, Online February 12, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ Wilmot 'Motty' Perkins: the man we love to hate ( Memento June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Jamaica Gleaner April 28, 2002. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  4. ↑ 'Butch' Stewart slaps 'Motty' Perkins with second libel suit ( Memento of 20 July 2010 at the Internet Archive ), Jamaica Observer of July 19, 2010. Retrieved on February 22 2012th
  5. ↑ Veteran journalist Wilmot Perkins dies at 80 , Jamaica Observer, February 11, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  6. ^ Butch's cases against 'Motty' alive in Supreme Court , Jamaica Gleaner, February 24, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Perkins, Wilmot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Motty; Mutty (nicknames)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican radio host and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2012
Place of death St. Andrew , Jamaica