Deputy Head of News at i.95.5/OCM (One Caribbean Media) Sterling Vincent Henderson died of a massive heart attack at his Arouca home on September 20, 2025. He joined i95’s news team in 2002 and worked there until his death.

Born October 26, 1971 to Jean Ulerie-Henderson and Sylvan Henderson, Sterling was the second of their two children. He grew up in Arouca and Dinsley Gardens, Tacarigua. He attended Tunapuna Boys’ RC and Hillview College before completing his secondary education at St Augustine Senior Comprehensive in 1990.

He began his media career at the Long Circular Mall radio station, working as an announcer before he migrated to New York with his mother and his brother, Kevin. He stayed for over a decade, worked in the hospitality industry, and became a well-known New York City party promoter.

Upon his return to Trinidad in the early 2000s, Sterling undertook a broadcasting course with Percy Parker-Williams’ Institute of Broadcasting Careers. An interview with Louis Lee-Sing garnered him a place in the i95FM newsroom under Head of News Dale Enoch.

Sterling’s luxurious baritone, quick wit and broad knowledge base endeared him to listeners and he became an enduring favourite on the station. He was promoted to Deputy Head of News in 2016.

In the mid-to-late-2000s he left Trinidad once again, this time to study for a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from UWI, Mona.

As a Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) student he interned at the BBC in London. Upon graduation he returned to Trinidad to resume his position at i95FM.

In the early 2020s he began a studying towards a Master’s degree at the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business. Both his undergraduate and graduate studies focused on his broadcast experience.

In the year before his death, he began a media training company, SVH Audio, and taught classes to aspiring media workers. Sterling had previously served on the Media Association’s executive.

Outside of the radio station he was a poet and blogger, and released an EP of his poetry, When Soca Full Meh Mouth, in 2020.

Sterling was in demand for his emcee and voiceover prowess. In a statement of condolence after his passing, NALIS lauded his “conversion of school texts to audio format for children who are blind, visually impaired and print disabled. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Digicel Foundation and NALIS Epic Partner Relations.”

Professionally, Sterling was known as an arts and culture commentator par excellence, often on the outside broadcast team for national events such as Dimanche Gras, Panorama, Calypso Fiesta, Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day, and Independence Day.

“He was assuring, he was knowledgeable, a tower of information. What he didn’t know he sought to find out and shared it with the team. His outside broadcasts were stunning. Sitting with him at a live event was always interesting,” eulogized his colleague Lance Mottley at Sterling’s funeral.

Never married, Sterling had no children. Until her death in 2020, he was devoted to his mother Jean, a nurse whose last years were affected by a series of strokes. Her loss left him shaken.

“Sterling would have cared for his mother forever if the Lord had allowed it. His loyalty, his devotion, his tenderness – these were not qualities he performed, but the very fabric of who he was,” recalled his cousin Carla-Marie Ulerie in her eulogy at his funeral.

An earnest, churchgoing Catholic who prayed the Holy Rosary daily, Sterling was a member of the congregation of the Arouca RC Church. He was also a dedicated limer, drinker and smoker, and played mas annually with 3Canal and Vulgar Fraction.

He was close friends with designer Robert Young, musician Gillian Moor, writer Lisa Allen-Agostini, journalist Amandla Thomas Johnson, raspso artist Wendell Manwarren, restaurateur Dale Ramirez, artist Michael Guy-James, stylist Murrien Mitchell, fashion journalist Jason Campbell, singer Glenda Collens and journalist Ardene Sirjoo, among others. He is survived by his brother Kevin, his nephew Anwar, and the Ulerie and Henderson families.