James Samuels
James Samuels, bass vocalist of The Aces who sang on Desmond Dekker's Israelites and 007 (Shanty Town), died on January 29 at age 78. He passed away at the St Ann's Bay Hospital fro.
Barbara Gloudon
The veteran broadcaster and theatre legend died at the University Hospital of the West Indies May 11. She was 87.
She wrote the radio drama Wrong Move, which aired on Radio Jamaic.
Cecil "Skelly" Spence, co-founder of roots-reggae group Israel Vibration, died August 26 at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. The singer succumbed to lung cancer at age 69, his son Craig S.