[4] Trained as a solicitor, de Caires founded Stabroek News in 1986 with the help of his wife and Ken Gordon of the Trinidad and Tobago Express.
After Guyana became independent from Britain in 1971, government policies limited the dissemination of information.
The government controlled nearly all aspects of media until President Desmond Hoyte enacted various political changes enabling freedom of speech.
de Caires was the first to establish an independent, critical newspaper in the country, and often seen as a watershed moment for media freedom in Guyana.
[8] He is survived by his sisters Mary and Felicity, widow Doreen, son Brendan, and daughter Isabelle, who is married to the former England cricket captain-turned-journalist Michael Atherton.