Don Rojas

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Don Rojas (born 1949) is a Vincentian (from St. Vincent) journalist and political commentator. He was the Editor in Chief of Grenada’s national newspaper The Free West Indian. He served as Prime Minister Maurice Bishop's press secretary from 1981-1983, until Bishop was murdered in a coup d'etat. When US Marines invaded Grenada in 1983, he was deported by the US military to Barbados. ^[1]

Since moving to the United States, Don Rojas has worked as General Manager of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York from late 2002 through May 2005. In the early 1990s, Rojas was an editor at the New York Amsterdam News, a famous black paper, based in Harlem. He is currently employed as a press officer by Oxfam America.