Career
He wanted a paper that promoted an open society based on the rule of law, a free market economy and the holding of free and fair elections. Stabroek News is known for the readers letter section in which readers can ask questions and voice their opinions. These sections often reached three pages a day.
De Caires suffered a heart attack on 14 August 2008.
He spent time in hospital in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. He was later transported to a hospital in Barbados, where he died on the morning of 1 November 2008.