Lord (Roy) Thomson invested millions in the experiment, which he believed would profit from what he saw as huge advertising potential in prosperous communities north and west of London.
Many Fleet Street figures such as Peter Wright[1][2] cut their teeth at the newspaper, which was edited in its early days by Ivor Lewis (former Sunday Times) and Richard Parrack, who was later to become a senior executive with News International.
Johnson founded and launched The Punch newspaper, a bi-weekly London-style popular quality tabloid, in Nassau, Bahamas, in February 1990.
The Punch was credited with bringing down the Old PLP Government of the late Bahamas Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling in August 1992.
John Marquis wrote Blood and Fire, about the famous murder of Sir Harry Oakes, and Papa Doc, about the Haitian dictator François Duvalier.
In its early days, the Post-Echo won many design awards, using offset printing to produce bold broadsheet pages with imaginative use of pictures.
He was one of a four-man investigation team led by Marquis, which included Lee Harrison and reporter Philip Smith, both of whom later worked on The National Enquirer in the United States.