Hazel Ward Redman
Hazel Ward Redman (née Wilson) was a Trinidad and Tobago television personality.[1]
She hosted Teen Dance Party and 12 & Under.[2] She was also known for hosting biology and other art-themed programming, with one of her best-known interviews of Aldwyn Roberts, the Mighty Kitchener at his Rain-o-Rama home.
She was the first weather anchor on Trinidad and Tobago Television ("TTT") in 1962.[2] Before that she was at Radio Trinidad, under the rediffusion service known as the b station.
Her private life was not well known. She had no children of her own. Her brother was Cecil Wilson, former head of the Trinidad & Tobago Immigration Department. He died in 1985 of cancer. She married Dr. Archie Redman in 1988, hyphenating her name to Ward-Redman. Ward died of cancer on October 27, 2014 at her home in San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago.[3] She was 79.
References
- ^ Celebration of media icons, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, November 19, 2007
- ^ a b Blood, Peter Ray. We TV Dead, Trinidad Guardian, January 14, 2005
- ^ "Aunty Hazel - farewell to a classy lady". The Trinidad Guardian Newspaper. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 2018-05-02.