Noel ‘Prezzie’ Alexander was a community builder
The passing of Noel Alexander, former president of the Jamaica Association, on Friday, September 10, marked a significant moment of loss for our community, Montreal, the province and indeed all of Canada. The stalwart, who Montreal Community CONTACT recognized among an illustrious group of community builders in 2016, stamped his name on the landscape of this city as an advocate for youth empowerment and a warrior in the fight for social justice. For more than three decades, he used the Jamaican Association of Montreal as a vehicle of change in a community that has been stunted by governmental neglect as …