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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Farewell for Jimmy Mc Nicolls today

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Staff mem­bers of Guardian Me­dia Ltd will say their fi­nal farewell to­day to Jim­my Mc­Ni­colls, a man who spent most of his life de­vot­ed to the news­pa­per.Mc­Ni­colls' wife Mar­cia said her hus­band was a jol­ly and hap­py man who had worked at the T&T Guardian since he was a teenag­er.Mc Nicolls, 70, passed away on Sat­ur­day morn­ing as a re­sult of a rup­tured liv­er but had been in and out of hos­pi­tal over the past few months ow­ing to com­pli­ca­tions from a fall.

"He was al­ways hap­py, and that is how I want peo­ple to re­mem­ber him," Mar­cia said.Copy­read­er at the T&T Guardian Kelvin Choy, Mc­Ni­colls' close friend for many years, said: "Jim­my was liked by every­one."Be­sides be­ing very pro­fi­cient in his job as a sube­d­i­tor for the dai­ly Guardian, the Evening News, and the Sun­day Guardian, he was well-liked by his work­mates and a plea­sure to work with.

"We were not on­ly work­mates but very close friends, like broth­ers."Mc Nicolls was al­so a gui­tarist of note and start­ed play­ing in the 1960s.Choy said Mc Nicolls, whom he called Jim­bo, would def­i­nite­ly be missed by all.Ed­i­to­r­i­al su­per­vi­sor Cher­ill Mc Clean, an­oth­er col­league, said Mc Nicolls was known as hap­py and fun-lov­ing.She al­so praised his skills: "He knew his work. He could look at a page and tell you im­me­di­ate­ly what was wrong with it and how to fix it."

Mc Nicolls will be laid to rest to­day fol­low­ing a fu­ner­al at 9.30 am at the St Agnes An­gli­can Church, Clarence Street, St James.


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