The Tribune

A MEMORIAL for veteran journalist and broadcaster P Anthony White will be held at St Agnes Anglican Church on Baillou Hill Road at 7pm tonight.

The funeral mass will be held 2.30pm on Sunday, December 8, also at St Agnes.

Mr White died last week after experiencing complications following a surgery. He was 73 years old.

Renowned for many years for his talents as a versatile writer and journalist, Mr White was born in the Bahamas and educated in the United States before returning home to work as a columnist.

At the age of 14 he began an informal apprenticeship in journalism and printing under Cyril Stevenson at the Nassau Herald.

He later travelled to New York to study, was married twice while there, and was in the audience when Malcolm X was assassinated in Harlem in 1965.

He returned to Nassau in 1968, after the PLP had won a land-slide election.

After his biting criticism of the Pindling administration during the 1970s won him the ire of that government, Mr White relocated to the Cayman Islands and later to the Seychelles in the South Pacific where he lived and worked for 11 years and established the Government News Bureau.

His close friend former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said: “He was in many respects the official wordsmith for the Free National Movement when I joined the party in 1990, and he was of at the height of his game when he assisted the party in framing our message to the Bahamian people in the lead up to the 1992 general election. I know that he believed his long years ‘fighting the good fight’ were vindicated by the FNM’s victory in 1992.

“He continued to provide writing services for the FNM, for me and for other members of each of the governments which I lead in the years that followed.”

Mr White worked as a professional writer for more than 40 years. At one point, he served as a New York correspondent for the Nassau Herald and spent three years at the New York Herald-Tribune. He was chairman and CEO of the radio station Joy FM at the time of his death.

Mr White is survived by three daughters, one son and eight grandchildren.