Carey Robinson

Carey Fitz William Robinson ( – 27 January 2022) was a Jamaican journalist, broadcaster and historian. He was head of the Jamaican government's Public Relations Office (now the Jamaica Information Service) and later general manager of Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation. He is most popularly known as the producer and narrator of the travel documentary Hill an' Gully Ride (1988–present), Jamaica's second longest-running television series. He is the author of five books: four texts on Jamaican history and a memoir.

Biography Robinson was born to Doctor Charles Carey Robinson and his wife, Marion (née Fitzritson). He was educated at Calabar High School before attending Howard University in the United States, where he studied history and psychology. as well as wrote, directed and produced Time of Fury – The 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion (1965), the first film production to be made exclusively in Jamaica by Jamaicans.

In 1971, he was made general manager of Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, exercising that office until 1987. In the 1980s, Robinson was also the executive director of the National Heritage Trust. Later, Robinson served overseas in Jamaican embassies in Washington D.C. and Mexico City. In 2008, Robinson was appointed to the Order of Distinction, with the rank of Commander,