Jamaican playwright Barry Reckord is dead.

Playwright Barry Reckford died at age 86 this morning , in Boscobell St Mary Jamaica. Barry's first play "Della" was produced at the Ward Theare in 1953.

Barry later went to England  to study at Cambridge, where he did "Flesh to a Tiger" was produced at the Royal Court in 1958.

He wrote several more plays for the Royal Court in the late 1950s and early 1960s including You In Your Small Corner, X At The Court and Skyvers.

In the 1970s Reckord wrote two television dramas for the BBC: In The Beautiful Caribbean and Club Havana. He was also writing and directing plays in America during this time. In 1973 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to Assist Research and Artistic Creation.

Reckord has had 14 stage and television plays produced in Britain and the Jamaica. Barry Reckord is considered on of the most popular playwrights of the  Caribbean