Tag: Wellesley Howell

Government to honour Howell ahead of funeral

Government to honour Howell ahead of funeral

| 06/08/2021 | 5 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government will fly the national flag on all government buildings at half-mast today in honour of Wellesley Howell, who died on 23 July at the age of 106. Cayman’s oldest resident at the time of his death was born in Jamaica in 1915 and moved here in 1958 to join a […]

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Cayman’s oldest resident dies at 106

Cayman’s oldest resident dies at 106

| 23/07/2021 | 19 Comments

(CNS): Wellesley Howell, a saxophonist, shoemaker and much loved character, died on Thursday night at the ripe old age of 106. The father of Wesley Howell, the elections supervisor and chief officer in the labour ministry, he was not only Cayman’s oldest resident but a well-known and much loved man who defied the whole of […]

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