Many Caribbean Americans took to social media last night (Sunday, September 18), to express condolences to the family of former Grenada Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus, who passed away in New York City. He was 95. Dr. Stanislaus, who was also a dentist by profession, reportedly died in Brooklyn at a hospice Sunday morning after an illness. He served as Grenada’s ambassador to the UN for about a decade in the 1990's and was also an advocate within the Caribbean-American community in New York. Stanislaus immigrated to the United States from Grenada in 1945 to attend Howard University in Washington. He majored in chemistry and physics as an undergrad and went to Howard Dental School and graduated from dental school in 1953. After graduation, he took a job doing pediatric dentistry in Newark. “A giant statesman,” is how some described him on Facebook while others called him an “icon” and “a champion of many causes.” He was one of the architects of the West Indian Labor Day Parade and was good friends with founders Carlos Lezama and Rufus Gorin and with many of the city’s politicians at that time, including the late Rep. Shirley Chisholm late former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton and late former Gov. Mario Cuomo and Congressman Charles Rangel. Dr. Stanislaus fathered five children—Lamuel, Galen, Karen, Eugene and John. Source: news america