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Professor Rex Nettleford is dead
By Antillean, Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Vice-chancellor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Professor Rex Nettleford is dead.

Professor Nettelford died late this evening at the George Washington Hospital in the United States six days after collapsing in a US hotel.

He would have been 77 tomorrow.

Rex Nettleford is the recipient of Jamaica’s third highest honour – the order of Merit and is a cultural advisor to the prime minister.

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