Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, DA, GCM, MBE, BSS (December 26, 1918 – February 4, 2011)[1] was a Guyanese-born Barbados-based social and community worker, radio broadcaster and singer.
Born in Guyana as Olga Lopes she worked as a broadcaster for Radio Demerara (where she acquired the nickname "Auntie Olga")[2] before migrating to Barbados with her Barbadian husband, Dick Seale.[3]
In Barbados, she worked for the Barbados Rediffusion Services Limited (now Starcom Network) and was active in community work. In the 1940s and 1950s she was known as "the Vera Lynn of the Caribbean".[4]
In 2005, she was made a 2005 Dame of St. Andrew.
On December 9, 2010, she fell at her home and broke her hip, suffering multiple fractures,[5] leaving her unable to continue her charity work for the Needy Children's Fund.
Lopes-Seale died on February 4, 2011, aged 92 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.