Cherice Brown, former sub-editor in the editorial department of The Gleaner Company. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

Cherice Brown, who worked with The Gleaner Company Ltd for more than 30 years before retiring in 2003, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies on Monday.

Editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Garfield Grandison, said Brown was very committed to the journalism profession and was an excellent sub-editor, who worked on the company's afternoon tabloid, THE STAR. He said she was an outstanding employee and a good team player. In 2002, Brown received The Gleaner Company's long service award for dedicating 35 years to the company.

Fun-loving

Her colleagues remember her as dependable, fun-loving and jovial.

Barbara Gloudon, former editor of THE STAR, expressed shocked at Brown's passing.

"She was a tremendous and down-to-earth lady," Gloudon said, adding that Brown was a reliable individual, who would get the job done at all cost.

Dedicated

Harvey Josephs, retired employee of The Gleaner Company, said Brown was a dedicated and punctual worker. Industrial Relations and Personnel Manager Anthony O'Gilvie personnel agreed.

"She was reputed to be a devoted, hard-working and dedicated worker," O'Gilvie said.

Brown started working at The Gleaner in September 1967 as a typist. She later worked as a sub-editor and reporter.

In 1979, she received a three-month scholarship to the Interna-tional Institute of Journalism in Berlin, Germany.