Former General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the Guyana Chronicle, Courtney Emmanuel Gibson, died late Sunday night in the United States after a recent battle with cancer, family members said.

The veteran Guyanese journalist was 60. He succumbed at a hospice in Tampa, Florida.
He had served for several decades as the Editor-in-Chief of St. Maarten’s Daily Herald newspaper after leaving Guyana, where he had been Bureau Chief for the Caribbean News Agency,  now the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
Prior to that appointment, he had served as General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the Guyana Chronicle newspaper during the PNC administration.
He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the now defunct Guyana News Agency (GNA) which was located in the Chronicle building.
He leaves to mourn his wife, Liz, his children and grandchildren.
His Daily Herald newspaper colleagues in St. Maarten, in a tribute yesterday, recalled that “he will be remembered for his talent, integrity and professionalism as a journalist and writer.”
A few former colleagues here remember him as “a wonderful human being” who was always polite and soft spoken.  Bobby Vieira said in a blog yesterday on his passing that “if my memory serves me right, Courtney also served as news editor at the GBC for a period.”  And he also remembers him as a “very good writer and reporter.”