Media Veteran Michael Sharpe is Dead

Veteran journalist and broadcaster for over twenty years, Michael Sharpe is dead. The 65-year-old is popularly known for anchoring Television Jamaica’s main news program ‘Prime Time News’ with deceased media veteran Dorraine Samuels, who died in 2019. He also hosted the station’s town hall feature ‘Your Issues Live’, with producers Kenrick Barnaby and later Edgar Lewis. In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Sharpe hosted his own radio show- Sharpe Talk- which dealt with socio-political issues.

He is a past student of the Calabar High School in St. Andrew.

Additionally, he is said to have played an instrumental role in the turnaround of Television Jamaica. Sharpe who was also a District Constable by night served as a Professor of Business and Media Studies at Northern Caribbean University (NCU). He is the managing director of the cable station Jamaica News Network (JNN), owned by the largest communications group in the Caribbean, the RJR Communications Group.

Sharpe was reportedly admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies in early March, where he stayed for weeks under the care of watchful eyes.

He passed away on the morning of April 20, 2021. Sharpe will always be remembered by his friends as a man who excelled at whatever he did and as a consummate parliamentary reporter.