VETERAN journalist Wilmot ‘Motty’ Perkins died peacefully at his home shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, Power 106 radio reported a short while ago.

Perkins, who had been ailing for a short while, hosted his own talk show — Perkins On Line — on the station since April 2002.

Regarded as one of Jamaica’s most incisive journalists, Perkins started his career in journalism as a reporter at The Gleaner.

In the early 1960's few years later he took a short break from the airwaves and went into farming.

He returned to radio in the 1970s, hosting the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation’s (JBC’s) popular call-in programme Public Eye. He later hosted Hot Line on RJR and then Straight Talk on KLAS FM 89, before hosting Perkins On Line on Hot 102 FM.

More in tomorrow’s Observer.

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