Wilmot Perkins

Wilmot ' Motty ' Perkins (also called " mutty " Perkins, born September 3, 1931 in Portland, † February 10, 2012 in St. Andrew ) was a Jamaican radio presenter and journalist. He was regarded as the senior and one of the most controversial talk show hosts Jamaica.

Life

Perkins attended Calabar High School in St. Andrew, and studied for some time Anglican theology at St. Peter 's College, which he left in 1953 without a degree. Already in the 1950s he began his career as a journalist with the newspaper The Gleaner, for which he worked as a parliamentary reporter, news editor and Kolomnist in the following years.

His first radio broadcast was What's your Grouse, which at RJR went on the air in 1960. In the 1970s and 1980s, he hosted after a change to the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation Public Eye first, then again at RJR Hot Line. As in the 1990s, KLAS FM 89 its operation began, Perkins had there with Straight Talk 's radio show before he hosted at Hot 102FM Perkins On Line, a show in which callers by phone with Perkins on current political issues, but also about many things others debated to philosophical and theological issues. The show became the most popular radio talk show in Jamaica. In April 2002, he moved with this talk show station Power 106 where he worked until shortly before his death.

Perkins was not only considered the longest-serving talk show host of the Jamaican radio stations, but also as one of the most controversial. Because of its radio broadcasts in which he criticized, among other things, the police, businessmen and politicians, lawsuits were against Perkins repeatedly strained, most recently in July 2010, after at Perkins On Line parts of speech have been played back, the then- senator of the opposition Andrew Gallimore on 28 June was held in front of Parliament in 2005. Gallimore had practiced in criticism of Gordon Stewart and Chris Zacca in relation to their management of Air Jamaica, this would have encouraged other of its business at the expense of taxpayers. Gallimore itself was protected by his parliamentary immunity, but Stewart, Zacca and the Air Jamaica Acquisition Group filed a lawsuit against Perkins and his employer, the Independent Radio Company (IRC ), as they are slandered by the repetition of speech in its program and in its Reputation looked damaged. However, all remained the - as has been claimed - in the course of time, a total of 28 cases against Perkins inconclusive, in the latter case, however, is still an appeal ( as of 24 February 2012). His critical comments earned him not only legal proceedings, including his life was threatened. According to a report in the Gleaner an assassination plot was uncovered in 1994 and subsequently Perkins was accompanied to protect him for some time by police escorts for work at KLAS FM in Mandeville.

Perkins was married for 56 years with his wife when he died on 10 February 2012 at the age of 80 years.