POPULAR television broadcaster and entertainment personality, Basil 'Bagga' Brown is dead.

Brown succumbed to bone cancer at the University Hospital of the West Indies minutes after six this morning.

He had been ailing with the disease for months and was hospitalised in November.

Brown is known for his popular vox pop, 'Whe Yuh Seh?' which airs on TVJ.

He was an insurance salesman and was one of the country's top emcees.