Kaleem Muhammad Alleyne has sadly
passed away on 15 November 1997 and will be greatly missed. To Allah
we belong and to Him we return.
Kaleem Muhammad Alleyne was born in 1931 in Bridge
Town Barbados. He was a founder member of the Islamic Party of
Britain and a member of its executive
body. He was the party's legal affairs spokesman and further
concerned with social affairs and labour relations.
Prior to embracing Islam in 1978, Kaleem Alleyne
served for 3 1/2 years in the Barbados Regiment. He migrated to
England in 1959, where he studied social and labour law and
economics.
He previously held the post of general secretary of
the Barbados Democratic Labour Party, was chairman of the Barbados
League of Friends, a trustee of the Barbados Overseas and Friends
Association, a constituency secretary to the Labour Party Black
Section in the London Borough of Hackney, a senior legal advisor and
administrator for Black Rights UK and a journalist with the
Caribbean Times.
Kaleem Alleyne continued to maintain close ties with
his native country Barbados and will be dearly missed both there and
in Britain.
Kaleem Muhammad Alleyne leaves a wife, 3 children
and grandchildren.