
Cabrera denies boycott
January 27th 2012 12:16 PMMedia Watch got a quick response from Vincent Cabrera, president of the Banking, Industrial and General Workers Union (BIGWU), to last week’s posting of a whisper campaign about a boycott of the Newsday newspaper. Word of the campaign had reached Media Watch through sources close to one of the trade read more…

News anchor fired
January 27th 2012 12:06 PMA HIGHLY visible news presenter has been pulled off the air after turning up for the job improperly dressed and refusing requests to change her attire. Now Media Watch has been given the inside story and is never shy about calling names. We have no fear of naming and shaming read more…

Rambachan pulling Stone
January 27th 2012 12:05 PMMedia Watch has been noting for some time the unhealthy environment at the State-owned Caribbean New Media Group, where morale is said to be quite low as a result of its marauding chairman and a chief executive struggling to find his feet. Well, it appears that Foreign Affairs and Communications read more…

Raymond returns to Guardian
January 27th 2012 12:05 PMMedia Watch congratulates Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago vice-president Judy Raymond on her appointment as Editor-in-chief Designate of the Guardian. Curiously, the appointment was not announced by the Guardian, or by Raymond, but by MATT through its Facebook page. Raymond has been conspicuously silent on the appointment, despite the read more…

From politics to food
January 27th 2012 12:04 PMLocal govt councillor serves her voters in another capacity RONNIE LA BORDE, former local government representative for the Cumuto-Tamana electoral district, is now serving her supporters in another capacity. And while she bowed out of local government politics because she felt that she needed a rest, La Borde is planning read more…

14 months later Cumana residents to get new roofs
January 27th 2012 12:03 PMHABITAT for Humanity’s TnT chapter is partnering with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to initiate a six-month on-the-job-training programme that will see Multi-Skills Training Programme (MuST) apprentices engaged in repairing 30 Cumana homes. The homes were damaged way back in September 2010 in a freak storm. The programme was read more…



