Anthony (Tony) Deyal wrote his first newspaper column, “Blackadaisical”, in 1974 for “The Charlatan”, the student newspaper of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. After graduating with First Class Honours in Journalism, Tony ended up working for the Prime Minister’s Office in Trinidad as the Television Producer and then, after a stint as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at Boston University, he became a consultant and, subsequently, the Communications Advisor to the World Health Organisation in Barbados in 1993. There he started a new humorous weekly column in the Barbados Nation which has been running for more than 28 years and is carried by the Jamaica Gleaner and many other newspapers in the English-speaking Caribbean and elsewhere. His end-tag, “Tony Deyal Was Last Seen” has become his trade-mark signoff for his weekly column. Noteworthy Achievements
Published “Tony Deyal Was Last Seen” – a collection of 76 of his articles published in the major Caribbean newspapers between April 1993 to the present.
Published “Blades of Grass and Glory”- a collection of 77 of his articles published in the Caribbean and some International newspapers over the past 30 years.
We are delighted to have him in conversation with MFA Creative Writing Student, Florence Rajoo