Winston Derrick (1951 – February 2, 2013) was an Antiguan journalist, media personality, and chairman and managing director of Antigua's Observer Group of Companies which he founded in 1993 with his brother Fergie Derrick.
[1] According to reporting from the Committee to Project Journalists, the radio station faced repeated threats and sabotage from the Antiguan government led by Lester Bird at the time:Winston and Samuel Derrick, editor and publisher, respectively, of The Daily Observer, intended to crack that monopoly in 1996 when they created the independent station Observer Radio.
After winning a November 2000 appeal from the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, which acts as the final appellate court for countries within the British Commonwealth, the Derrick brothers were finally able to open their station on April 15, 2001.
Recently, the government began broadcasting one of its shows on a frequency close to the one used by Observer Radio; since the government station has a more powerful transmitter, Observer Radio's signal is often disrupted.
[2][3] Derrick died suddenly after drinking with friends at local restaurant Russell's in Fort James, Antigua at the age of 62.