Well-known Guyanese-born lawyer/lecturer found dead in Barbados
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| Published on Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
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By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: A well-known Guyanese-born attorney, law lecturer, consumer advocate and former newspaper columnist was found dead at his Fort George home in St Michael, Barbados on Tuesday morning.
The body of Rahim Bacchus, who was in his early fifties, was discovered by his maid.
President of the Barbados Bar Association, Wilfred Abrahams, told the Nation newspaper that Bacchus death "will hit the profession particularly hard".
In addition to being a private practitioner, he would have taught many of the attorneys who are under 15 years call, many of the junior attorneys, because he was a lecturer at Cave Hill, UWI.
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor Simeon McIntosh, also remembered Bacchus as an "extremely affable person. He got on splendidly with everyone on the faculty and really immersed himself in the life of the faculty.”
McIntosh said when he saw Bacchus last Thursday he looked "hale and hearty."
The Nation reported that he started out as a part-time lecturer at the university in 1982, before leaving in 2003 to go into private practice and real estate.
He was also the legal counsel of the Guyana consulate in Barbados. | | | | Reads : 756 | | | |
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