Olga Lopes-Seale


Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, DA, GCM, MBE, BSS was a Guyanese-born Barbados-based social and community worker, radio broadcaster and singer.

Life

Born in Guyana as Olga Lopes she worked as a broadcaster for Radio Demerara before migrating to Barbados with her Barbadian husband, Dick Seale.
In Barbados, she worked for the Barbados Rediffusion Services Limited and was active in community work. In the 1940s and 1950s she was known as "the Vera Lynn of the Caribbean". In 2005, she was made a
On 9 December 2010, she fell at her home and broke her hip, suffering multiple fractures, leaving her unable to continue her charity work for the Needy Children's Fund.

Death

Lopes-Seale died on 4 February 2011, aged 92 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.