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Mrs Fete

Reigning Soca Monarch and Road March Champion Machel Montano (left) serenades Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at his Machel Monday Carnival Concert at the National Stadium last Monday. Also attending the concert were (from left) Public Utilities Minister Emmanuel George, Minister of National Security John Sandy, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Communications, Nicole Dyer-Griffith; the Prime Minister's husband Dr. Gregory Bissessar and calypsonian Benjai

Kamla keeps up heavy party schedule Amidst fiery protests in the Siparia constituency and bitter complaints by some constituents that she is missing in action, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is keeping up a heavy party schedule of Carnival fetes, in one instance hitting three — in different parts of the  read more…

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O'Brian Haynes

O’Brian Haynes now on ‘The Street’

February 17th 2012 12:06 PM

DESPITE the contentious separation of O’Brien Haynes from Power 102, the disc jockey turned CEO has managed to bounce back well. Haynes, who left the Gillette family-owned Radio Vision in circumstances which led to the organisation placing newspaper advertisements disavowing any relationship with him, has landed at Iwer George’s 91.1  read more…

TnT Mirror Publisher Maxie Cuffie collects an award from Minister in the Ministry of National Security Colin Partap

Mirror gets ‘award’ from MNS

February 17th 2012 12:05 PM

Media Watch does not quite know what to make of the award presented by the Ministry of National Security to TnT Mirror publisher Maxie Cuffie at the Ministry’s media appreciation ceremony held on Friday February 3. The inscription on the ‘award’, which was presented to all media houses, stated that  read more…

Attorney General Anand Ramlogan

Ramlogan gets facts wrong… again

February 17th 2012 12:04 PM

ATTORNEY General Anand Ramlogan SC is emerging as a man of questionable veracity. How else can Media Watch explain the AG’s response to the search of Newsday’s offices and the home of reporter Andre Bagoo. While we have to take the AG at his word that he did not know  read more…

Inshan Ishmael

Religious stations at war

February 17th 2012 12:03 PM

Media Watch is now following a verbal war between two religious broadcast entities Radio Jagriti, the station controlled by Sat Maharaj’s Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha and the Islamic Broadcasting Network (IBN) owned by Insham Ishmael. Ironically, Ishmael was one of Maharaj’s main supporters in his battle for the radio broadcast  read more…

Makandal Daaga

Some news analysis for Daaga

February 10th 2012 12:11 PM

Media Watch has always considered Makandal Daaga something of an odd ball. It is true the NJAC ‘Chief Servant’ had his 15 minutes of fame in 1970 and was the self-proclaimed leader of the Black Power disturbances which led to radical changes in Trinidad and Tobago society. Although there are  read more…

Owen Baptiste (left) chats with former CARICOM Secretary General Sir Edwin Carrington

Baptiste promises another book

February 10th 2012 12:10 PM

Media Watch was surprised at the surprisingly small turnout of journalists and the meagre coverage given to the launch of Owen Baptiste’s ‘Seagulls Won’t Come Home’, a biography cum travelogue, at NALIS last week Wednesday. Baptiste was at one time a household name in local media and a prolific writer  read more…

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